Madhouse
core novel 2008 Cal Leandros
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.05 (5,947 ratings, collected 2026-10-30) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451461964 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother Niko are struggling to make their supernatural investigation business pay, even in a New York crawling with vampires, trolls and other monsters for anyone who knows where to look. Work arrives when a vampire hires them to find his kidnapped lamia girlfriend, but they find her dead alongside several human victims, killed by something they cannot identify. Then a curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art asks them to recover a missing exhibit, which turns out to be Sawney Beane, a murderer from the past, once believed human, who has been brought back and is hunting the city's people like livestock. At the same time their friend Robin Goodfellow, a puck, is being hunted for a crime he committed thousands of years ago, and the brothers, with Niko's vampire girlfriend Promise, have to protect him while stopping the killer.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cal Leandros
- Series: Cal Leandros core; position 3 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Rob Thurman
Notes
- From the series record (Cal Leandros): Ten novels, Roc, 2006 to 2015; an eleventh was cancelled.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Cal Leandros: position 3 of 10: previous Moonshine (2007) · next Deathwish (2009)
- Internal chronology, within Cal Leandros: position 5 of 12: previous The Grimrose Path (2010) · next Deathwish (2009)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Cal Leandros series
- PaperBackSwap: Rob Thurman (Roc ISBNs)
- Google Books: Madhouse (publisher description)
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing: review of Madhouse
- Fantasy Literature: review of Madhouse
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