History Literature / GhostFinders

** A handsome, overconfident team leader in spotless white, a techie girl genius who needs artificial means to See phenomena her companions can, a gorgeous redhead who vanishes from time to time, and a self-deprecating coward who has to scarf down something addictive to work up his nerve? [[ScoobyDoo All that's missing is the big talking dog...]]

A six-book series by Creator/SimonRGreen, ''Ghost Finders'' follows closely in the same vein as his two other urban fantasy series ({{Literature/Nightside}} and SecretHistories). It follows the adventures of a team from the Carnacki Institute, which wants to Do Something about ghosts (and other weirdness) - JC Chance, a perpetually optimistic, arrogant blowhard (who always turns out to be right, in the end); Melody, the team's tech guru who turns into a LovableSexManiac after hours; and Happy, a "class 11 telepath" on enough drugs to empty out a pharmacy, who can almost never [[TheCynic think positively]] (unless on certain types of the aforementioned drugs).

** The Chimera House researchers seem to have more or less duplicated what [[spoiler: the old Soviet scientists had been doing at Tunguska]] in ''[[SecretHistories The Spy Who Haunted Me]]''.
** Some cross-references to [[{{Literature/Nightside}} Julien Advent]] and [[SecretHistories the Droods]] turn up in the third book.

A six-book series by Creator/SimonRGreen, ''Ghost Finders'' follows closely in the same vein as his two other urban fantasy series ({{Nightside}} and SecretHistories). It follows the adventures of a team from the Carnacki Institute, which wants to Do Something about ghosts (and other weirdness) - JC Chance, a perpetually optimistic, arrogant blowhard (who always turns out to be right, in the end); Melody, the team's tech guru who turns into a LovableSexManiac after hours; and Happy, a "class 11 telepath" on enough drugs to empty out a pharmacy, who can almost never [[TheCynic think positively]] (unless on certain types of the aforementioned drugs).

** Some cross-references to [[{{Nightside}} Julien Advent]] and [[SecretHistories the Droods]] turn up in the third book.

A new series by Creator/SimonRGreen, ''Ghost Finders'' follows closely in the same vein as his two other urban fantasy series ({{Nightside}} and SecretHistories). It follows the adventures of a team from the Carnacki Institute, which wants to Do Something about ghosts (and other weirdness) - JC Chance, a perpetually optimistic, arrogant blowhard (who always turns out to be right, in the end); Melody, the team's tech guru who turns into a LovableSexManiac after hours; and Happy, a "class 11 telepath" on enough drugs to empty out a pharmacy, who can almost never [[TheCynic think positively]] (unless on certain types of the aforementioned drugs).

* 'Forces from Beyond (2015)' ''

** Boos six has a quick reference to fixing it "taking months".

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[[caption-width:302:From left to right: Melody, J.C., "Happy" Jack Plamer]]

* ShoutOut: The Institute's and series names are a reference to CarnackiTheGhostFinder, who explicitly exists in Green's Verse.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Book five never says if [[spoiler: Volke's graduate students]] ever got their correct bodies back.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:

* GhostShipping

* HauntedHouse: Surprisingly averted for the first four books: they've had haunted factories, parking lots, subway and train stations, corporate facilities, theaters and inns, but no houses. Book five comes closest with a haunted mansion, except it's been turned into a radio station.

* EldritchAbomination: Considering this is UrbanFantasy by Creator/SimonRGreen, it'd be disappointing if there WASN'T at least one. In the first book, it's [[spoiler: Fenris Tenebrae, the Wolf of Shadows who will devour the sun and moon. Or would have, if the team hadn't kicked its ass (metaphorically) back to whichever afterworld it came from.]] In the second, a new BigBad example called [[spoiler: the Flesh Undying]] is introduced, and it's making its presence felt more directly by the third.

* HauntedHouse: Surprisingly averted for the first four books: they've had haunted factories, parking lots, subway and train stations, corporate facilities, theaters and inns, but no houses (yet).

* ChekhovMIA: Happy detects three minds outside of his team. [[spoiler: We only meet two for most of the book.]]

On their tails are members of the rival group, the Crowley Project: agents like Natasha Chang, a sadistic RichBitch of a telepath, and her sidekick (against her will) [[MeaningfulName ErikGrossman,]] a physically and socially repulsive scientist with similarly repulsive scientific interests. At their backs, the indomitable Catherine Latimer, uncompromising head of the Institute who won't give in to bureaucratic foot-dragging, hidden traitors among her own senior agents, or whinging pleas for overtime. And on every side, the teeming forces of the supernatural, ready and waiting to overthrow the safe-and-sane daylight world for the legions of unquiet dead ... or the far more inhuman, destructive powers that would use ghosts and Ghost Finders, alike, for their own ends.