Line #7 Literature/Greywalker


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2	[[caption-width-right:399:Seattle's never looked so gothic.]]
3	Written by Kat Richardson, the Greywalker series follows [[OccultDetective Harper Blaine]], a hard-boiled PrivateInvestigator who dies for a couple minutes before being [[BackFromTheDead brought back]], but came back... [[CameBackWrong different]]. More specifically, she has become a Greywalker, a person who can navigate the Grey, the boundary between the worlds of the normal and paranormal. Quickly drawn into the [[UrbanFantasy supernatural goings-on of Seattle]] including a newbie vampire, a witch and her ghost boarder, she has to learn to accept her new life.
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5	The Greywalker series spans 9 books:
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7	# ''Greywalker''
8	# ''Poltergeist''
9	# ''Underground''
10	# ''Vanished''
11	# ''Labyrinth''
12	# ''Downpour''
13	# ''Seawitch''
14	# ''Possession''
15	# ''Revenant''
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17	[[WordOfGod Richardson has noted that the 9th book will be the last in the series]], at least for the time being.
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21	* ActionGirl: Harper, naturally, but Mara also has her moments (although she strongly prefers to avoid them whenever possible).
22	* AllMythsAreTrue
23	* BackFromTheDead: How Harper becomes the titular Greywalker. However, while this is necessary, it is not sufficient on its own, as many people die and are brought back through medical intervention without becoming Greywalkers.
24	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Wygan.]]
25	* CuteAndPsycho: Alice Liddel. [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland The name may have been a clue.]]
26	* DisposableVagrant: In the third book, Harper is drawn into the goings-on through this. [[spoiler: Quinton being voluntarily homeless helps due to his contacts within the "community".]]
27	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the books have {{One Word Title}}s:
28	** ''Greywalker''
29	** ''Poltergeist''
30	** ''Underground''
31	** ''Vanished'': VerbedTitle, subtrope of OneWordTitle.
32	** ''Labyrinth''
33	** ''Downpour''
34	** ''Seawitch''
35	** ''Possession''
36	** ''Revenant''
37	* InTheBlood: Bloodline seems to play a role in [[spoiler:becoming a Greywalker, since Harper's father may have been one.]]
38	* JobTitle: Some of the book titles are roles:
39	** ''Greywalker''
40	** ''Seawitch''
41	* LittleUselessGun: Technically neither little nor useless, Harper carries around a handgun habitually - particularly after dying - even though against the overwhelming majority of entities she has actually shot with it treat it as an annoyance at best.
42	* {{Masquerade}}: JustifiedTrope, as most people literally [[InvisibleToNormals cannot see ghosts or the oddities of vampires and the like]]. Even witches like [[HotWitch Mara]] find their perception to be extremely poor in comparison to Harper's. However, people confronted with undeniable evidence of supernatural activity take an incredibly skeptical view, including a researcher who was deliberately trying to induce psychokinetic instances and called in Harper to investigate when [[GoneHorriblyRight his results became too good]], on the basis that the idea that his experiment was actually doing what he told the participants it was doing was clearly impossible.
43	* MindRape: [[spoiler: Wygan's forcing of a knot of Grey into Harper's chest is played this way.]]
44	* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: Going straight from Harper's breakdown from the MindRape above to her waking up cutely with Will certainly qualifies.]]
45	* OccultDetective: Harper was a PI before dying, but after she definitely fulfils this role, assisted by [[HotWitch Mara Danzinger]] and [[GadgeteerGenius tech genius Quinton]].
46	* OneWordTitle: All of the books' titles:
47	** ''Greywalker''
48	** ''Poltergeist''
49	** ''Underground''
50	** ''Vanished'': VerbedTitle, subtrope of OneWordTitle.
51	** ''Labyrinth''
52	** ''Downpour''
53	** ''Seawitch''
54	** ''Possession''
55	** ''Revenant''
56	* {{Portmantitle}}: A few of the books' titles:
57	** ''Underground''
58	** ''Downpour''
59	** ''Seawitch''
60	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Edward Kammerling, the head vampire of Seattle, is 300 years old.
61	* ShownTheirWork: The author is often fairly careful about the degree of research they do (the second and subsequent books end with what is effectively a ''reference list''), even though they are pretty open about changing it for narrative purposes. This may be a reaction to early criticisms from fans.
62	* TeamPet: Technically Harper's, but Chaos, her pet ferret, offers comfort and even occasionally is practically useful in the field.
63	* TheUnreveal: The vampiric nature of one of Harper's clients acts as this to Quinton.
64	* VerbedTitle: The book called ''Vanished''.

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