The Occult Detective by Jesse Steinchen
Meet Lewis Carnelian, San Francisco’s least-likely private eye—a self-proclaimed occult detective whose biggest mystery is how he keeps surviving his own cases. When his miss-printed I Ching sends him to a vanishing alley and a bakery that shouldn’t exist, Lewis is dragged into a fight involving refugee demons, bureaucratic gnostics, and dimensions even more chaotic than a subterranean rave.
Darkly funny, fast-paced, and strange in all the right ways, The Occult Detective is a noir adventure where cosmic horror meets comic misfortune — and nothing stays in one piece for long.
Think Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and Doctor Who having a late-night fernet at a less-known but cool San Francisco neighborhood bar.
Excerpt from the first chapter
"You see, Lewis Carnelian was an occult detective. At least, that’s what he told people. He’d ‘solved’ — or more accurately, mishandled — several mysteries that refused to stay natural. Tonight, the I Ching had led him to a dead end. A literal one. But when he brought the thugs back to prove it— the dead end was gone.”
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