Bitter Gold Hearts
core novel 1988 Garrett P.I.
Record
| First published | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.07 (3,977 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 288 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451153715 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
In Bitter Gold Hearts, the second Garrett P.I. novel, private investigator Garrett is approached in TunFaire by a young woman named Amiranda Crest, who says her employer's son has been kidnapped and asks Garrett to help arrange the ransom exchange, though her superior implies he is really wanted only as a decoy. Garrett's interest sharpens after he is attacked by ogres on his way home, and he takes the case more seriously than intended. The missing boy turns out to be the son of the powerful sorceress Stormwarden Raver Styx, and as Garrett investigates he finds the kidnapping tangled up with members of the boy's own household, a prostitute named Donni Pell, and an ogre gang led by a figure called Gorgeous.
Where it sits
- Universe: Garrett P.I.
- Series: Garrett P.I. core; position 2 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glen Cook
Notes
- From the series record (Garrett P.I.): Core Canon = the 14-novel main sequence. Fourteen books were originally published one at a time from 1987 to 2013; omnibus reissues of groups of three exist but add no new content and are not catalogued separately.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Garrett P.I.: position 2 of 14: previous Sweet Silver Blues (1987) · next Cold Copper Tears (1988)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Garrett P.I.
- OrderOfBooks.com: Garrett P.I.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Gold_Hearts
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