Kim Harrison

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Kim Harrison (2012)

Kim Harrison (born 1966 in the American Midwest ) is an American writer.

Life

She is known for her Rachel Morgan series. Kim grew up as the only girl in a family with just boys in the "upper Midwest" of America and loved to play the keyboard . After obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree , she worked, among other things, in the rearing and care of sterile coral colonies. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America . After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree, she moved to South Carolina , where she still lives today. Under the pseudonym Dawn Cook , she published the fantasy series The Books of Truths .

Like her protagonists, Kim Harrison also has a preference for cemeteries and is rarely found at home during a full moon or new moon. Kim Harrison now lives in South Carolina because the Midwest was too cold for her. Kissed Dead Live Longer is the first volume in the Madison Avery series .

Prices

She received from PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature)

  • 2004 Best New Author + Best Science Fiction Novel (Dead Witch Walking) and
  • 2006, Best SF / Fantasy (A Fistful of Charms)

She got it from the Romantic Times Bookclub, a web magazine

  • 2004 the award for the Best Fantasy Novel (Dead Witch Walking)

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Rachel Morgan Series / The Hollows

Summary

The Hollows is a fantasy series of 13 volumes that can be assigned to the genres of urban fantasy and humorous fantasy . The last volume of the fantasy series was published in 2015.

In Rachel Morgan's alternate reality, a new type of tomato was genetically designed in 1966, but a bug developed into a virus (T4 Angel) that killed about a quarter of normal human beings. It showed that other, non-human beings have long lived among humans, the so-called Inderlanders: witches , vampires , werewolves , pixies and others. The Inderlanders are immune to T4 Angel and use the resulting chaos to give up their game of hide-and-seek and live openly next to people. Since that time - the change - normal people are no longer masters of the earth. The Inderlanders are far superior to them, which also prevents prosecution by the old authorities. In order to enable equal cooperation, two new agencies are being created in the USA: Inderland Security IS, which consists only of Inderlanders, and the human-occupied FIB (Federal Inderland Bureau). In addition to the normal world, there is a magical level, the ever-after (called Jenseits in German), connected to the normal world by lines of force (ley lines) and the home of demons , elves and witches.

  • The elves waged war against the demons thousands of years ago, in which both sides used DNA-altering weapons and suffered corresponding damage. About 2000 years ago the elves fled from the ever-after into our world and mingled with normal people in order not to die out from the damage they had suffered. This also made them receptive to T4 Angel and is said to have been exterminated in the Shift. However, they live underground and are desperately working on genetic treatment to restore their original genome.
  • The ever-after species of witches moved into our world around 5000 years ago. Witches look like humans but are non-human and therefore cannot mix with humans. Its origin is explained in the novel Blutnacht ('The Outlaw Demon Wails' / 'Where Demons Dare'): the biological warfare of the elves led to a genetic modification of the demons that gave rise to the witches.
  • The Inderland species of vampires was created by a virus that causes a vampire to lose his soul after death, but his body continues to live undead.
  • Werewolves come from normal humans who were changed by a demon curse about 6,000 years ago.

Against this background, the witch Rachel Morgan lives in the city of Cincinnati and works for Inderland Security as a 'runner', a special agent for tracking down criminal Inderlanders. However, she is dissatisfied because her boss is giving her less and less jobs. It is not possible to quit because, according to rumors, the IS reacts with murder. When she is about to arrest a leprechaun , she takes the opportunity to have three wishes fulfilled in order to avoid the threat of death and to set up her own business. Together with Ivy, a vampire and IS agent, and Pixie Jenks, who worked for IS as her backup companion, she founded the detective agency 'Vampiric Charms'. Rachel is no ordinary witch. The genetic change made by the elves can mutate and then cause the witch to regress into a demon. Usually the witch child then dies early. Rachel and Trent Kalamack's father researched the genetic consequences of the elven-demon war and managed to ensure that Rachel did not die of this mutation. Gene surgery is banned as a result of the gene virus catastrophe, so all of this was top secret and Rachel did not know what was inside for a long time. Only during a longer stay in the afterlife (blood night) does she find out what she is, why she can work demon magic and she also learns that her children will almost certainly be real demons again.

The books

The novels tell of how Rachel freed herself from the threat of death from IS, how her relationship with Ivy, Jenks and others developed and how she discovers her special features step by step. The stories are a mixture of crime, mystery and action and are (at least in the original) spiced with a lot of puns. In the advertising there are references to "every page full of crackling eroticism", but this was confirmed by some reviews, e.g. B. at Amazon, is described as far exaggerated. The German titles do not reveal the parallelism, but the English titles are, with the exception of the first book, allusions to Clint Eastwood films.

No. title date ISBN English title date ISBN Allusion to film title
1 Blood trail 12/06/2006 ISBN 3-453-43223-1 Dead witch walking. 04/27/2004 ISBN 0-06-057296-5 Dead man walking.
Dead Live Longer (1988) / His Last Walk (1995)
2 Blood game 11/01/2007 ISBN 978-3-453-43304-5 The Good, The Bad, And The Undead. 01/25/2005 ISBN 0-06-057296-5 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Two glorious scoundrels
3 Bloodhunt 08/04/2008 ISBN 978-3-453-53279-3 Every Which Way But Dead. 06/28/2005 ISBN 0-06-057299-X Every Which Way But Loose.
The man from San Fernando
4th Blood pact December 04, 2008 ISBN 978-3-453-53290-8 A fistful of charms. 06/27/2006 ISBN 0-06-078819-4 A Fistful of Dollars
For a Fistful of Dollars
5 Blood magic 01/10/2011 Intermediate belt Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil
6th Blood song 06/01/2009 ISBN 978-3-453-52472-9 For a few demons more. 03/20/2007 ISBN 978-0-06-078838-4 For a Few Dollars More.
For a few more dollars
7th Whispering blood Intermediate belt Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel
8th Blood night 05/10/2009 ISBN 978-3-453-52616-7 The Outlaw Demon Wails.
Where Demons Dare. (UK)		 11/25/2008 ISBN 978-0-06-078870-4
ISBN 978-0-00-724780-6 		The Outlaw Josey Wales. / Where Eagles Dare.
The Texans / Agents die lonely
9 Blood child 05/10/2010 ISBN 978-3-453-53352-3 White Witch, Black Curse. 02/24/2009 ISBN 978-0-06-078838-4 (US)
ISBN 978-0-06-113801-0 (UK)		 White Hunter, Black Heart
White Hunter, Black Heart
10 Blood oath 10/11/2010 ISBN 978-3-453-52750-8 Black Magic Sanction. 12/28/2010 ISBN 978-0-06-113803-4 (US) The Eiger Sanction
On behalf of the dragon
11 Blood demon 07/11/2011 ISBN 978-3-453-52848-2 Pale demon. 08/04/2011 ISBN 978-0-06-113807-2 Pale Rider
The nameless rider
12 Blood ties 09/10/2012 ISBN 978-3-453-52951-9 A perfect blood. 02/21/2012 ISBN 978-0-06-195789-5 (US) A Perfect World
Perfect World
13 Blood soul Intermediate belt
14th Blood oath 09/09/2013 ISBN 978-3-453-31474-0 Ever after. 01/22/2013 ISBN 978-0-06-195791-8 Hereafter
Hereafter - The life after
15th Blood witch 08/11/2014 ISBN 978-3-453-31576-1 The Undead Pool. 02/25/2014 ISBN 978-0-06-195793-2 The Dead Pool
The death game
16 Blood curse 07/13/2015 ISBN 978-3-453-31663-8 The Witch with No Name. 09/09/2014 ISBN 978-0-06-195795-6 The Man with No Name
17th The change 08/14/2017 ISBN 978-3-453-31874-8 The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death 07.02.2017 ISBN 978-1501108716

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Madison Avery series

title date ISBN English title date ISBN
Those kissed dead live longer June 15, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7855-7141-5 Once dead twice shy. May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-171816-8 .
Death wears sneakers January 18, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7855-7197-2 Early to death, early to rise. - -
Bad girls don't die January 2012 ISBN 978-3-7855-7198-9 Something deadly this way comes. May 24, 2011 ISBN 978-0-06-171819-9

Anthologies

German title date ISBN English title date ISBN
Blood magic 01/10/2011 ISBN 978-3-453-52787-4 Dates from Hell.
Undead in the Garden of Good and Evil (Hollow's story about Ivy)		 1.04.2006 ISBN 0-06-085409-X .
Whispering blood 01/09/2012 ISBN 978-3-453-52886-4 Holidays are Hell.
Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel (Hollow's story about Rachel)		 10/30/2007 ISBN 978-0-06-123909-0 .
- - - Hotter than Hell.
(Editor), Dirty Magic (Hollows Short Story)		 July 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-116129-2 .
To the eternity October 2010 ISBN 978-3-442-37571-4 Prom Nights from Hell.
Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper (Backstory to Once dead twice shy)		 May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-171816-8 .
- - - Unbound
(Editor), Ley line drifters (Jenks short story)		 August 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-169993-1 .
Blood soul October 02, 2014 ISBN 978-3-453-31510-5 Into the Woods (short story collection) 09/10/2012 ISBN 978-0-06-197432-8

Novels under the pseudonym Dawn Cook

Truths - Truth

Princess

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personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Dawn (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Midwest , United States