Cruel Zinc Melodies
core novel 2008 Garrett P.I.
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (1,933 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 416 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451461926 |
| Internal chronology | 12 |
Synopsis
Cruel Zinc Melodies, the twelfth Garrett P.I. novel, opens during a quiet TunFaire winter that is interrupted when Garrett's girlfriend Tinnie Tate and her friends arrive with a business proposition: forming an acting troupe for a new theater called The World, then under construction and financed by the wealthy beer baron Max Weider. The theater's construction has been plagued by three separate problems — break-ins, unnaturally persistent bugs, and ghostly disturbances — and Garrett's investigation reveals the bugs are the product of sorcerous experiments carried out by young mages from the Hill, whose meddling has stirred something ancient that has slumbered for eons beneath the construction site.
Where it sits
- Universe: Garrett P.I.
- Series: Garrett P.I. core; position 12 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 12 of 14: previous Whispering Nickel Idols (2005) · next Gilded Latten Bones (2010)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Garrett P.I.
- OrderOfBooks.com: Garrett P.I.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_Zinc_Melodies
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