A Troll Walks into a Bar

A Noir Urban Fantasy Novel (Alexander Southerland, P.I., Book 1)

By: Douglas Lumsden

Narrated by: Duffy P. Weber

A troll in a pinstriped suit walks into a bar. He's looking for Alex Southerland, private investigator and summoner of elementals. A gorgeous dame is going to come to Southerland with a case, and the troll tells him that he is going to turn the case down - or else! But Southerland doesn't respond well to threats, even from a seven-and-a-half foot, 500-pound enforcer. Besides, he needs the dough! The stubborn PI soon finds himself cruising through the traffic-jammed streets of Yerba City in an outlandish beastmobile borrowed from a glorified pimp, encountering corrupt city officials, deadly gang bosses, creatures of legend, the sleaziest attorney in the city, a were-rat, and an irresistible - if homicidal - refugee from the ocean depths. Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Southerland weaves his way from seedy neighborhoods to the dazzling lights of downtown - and from one savage beating to the next - to clear his name and uncover a shocking secret.

©2019 Douglas W Lumsden (P)2020 Douglas W Lumsden

Interesting story

The story was quite good with few plot holes and few issues with story. The detective was a hard boiled wizard detective in a rich world.

Gritty Private Detective In A Fantastical World

Very entertaining. Great for fans of The Dresden Files or Luke Arnold’s Fetch Philips series. Top notch audiobook performance. Highly Recommended.

Solid Noir

This was a good solid Noir story with some fantasy elements. The narrator did a good job with the voices and had the right sound for a gritty noir tale.

Better than you’d think

Pretty good noir urban fantasy story. The cover kind of threw me off, same with not knowing the narrator.

The narrator is good, but one character does sound like Kenny from South Park. It’s all I could think about when that character came on.

Great Urban Fantasy Book

If you are a fan of Jim Butcher’s Dresden files, then certainly give A Troll Walks into a Bar a read. P.I. Alex Southerland fills in a unique world with his wit, sarcasm and survival skills trying to come up with rent money. Trolls, gangs, and nymphs are just another day in the life of Southerland. Really great book by Douglas Lumsden.