Books like Half-resurrection blues by Daniel José Older

Gideon the Ninth follows a sword‑wielding necromancer who must team up with a bone‑witch to survive a deadly trial of wits and combat under an emperor’s watch in a sprawling sci‑fantasy universe.

Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

A Crown Imperilled: The Last Stand of the Conclave of Shadows

On the starship Dormire, clones of a murdered crew awaken in vats, each fearing the next bloodshed—but a new clone with no memory of her death must uncover the killer before another murder takes place.

In Los Angeles, former mercenary James Stark, known as Sand Man Slim, tracks a dead man, hunts an ancient artifact, and evades both angry old gods and ruthless killers.

A quest to retrieve an Orb, set against a backdrop of gods, kings, and magic, featuring an Imperial Princess and her sorcerer relatives on a dangerous mission.

When the Nazis outlaw jazz, a German‑American band escapes to Paris and a young black trumpeter vanishes—only decades later his fate resurfaces in a Berlin documentary, forcing a witness to recount the desperate years of music, race, and memory.

Carlos Delacruz, an agent for the Council of the Dead, hunts paranormal culprits behind a string of grisly ghost‑themed accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park.

Sergeant Hallie Michaels finds her sister's ghost at the airport and starts uncovering the mysterious disappearance of women in South Dakota.

Reimaginging of the life of blues musician Robert Johnson. Cf. Vol. [1], p. [4] of cover. 1.

Seven Princes: A Fantasy Tale of War, Vengeance, and Redemption

Peter Grant's first magical case and the beginning of his uniquely London-based police adventures.

"Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Though the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. Focusing on these developments, Patricia R. Schroeder's Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture breaks new ground in Johnson scholarship, going beyond simple or speculative biography to explore him in his larger role as a contemporary cultural icon." "Part literary analysis, part cultural criticism, and part biographical study, Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture shows the Robert Johnson of today to be less a two-dimensional character fixed by the few known facts of his life than a dynamic and contested set of ideas." "Represented in novels, in plays, and even on a postage stamp, he provides inspiration for "highbrow" cultural artifacts - such as poems - as well as Hollywood movies and T-shirts. Schroeder's detailed and scholarly analysis directly engages key images and stories about Johnson (such as the Faustian crossroads exchange of his soul for guitar virtuosity), navigating the many competing interpretations that swirl around him to reveal the cultural purposes these stories and their tellers serve." "Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture is essential reading for cultural critics and blues fans alike."--BOOK JACKET.

In a Brooklyn where the living and dead collide, politician‑turned‑double agent Carlos Delacruz must stop the Council of the Dead from plunging the city into supernatural war.