Best Stephen Blackmoore Books

The best books by Stephen Blackmoore — 8 titles spanning Fantasy, Mystery, averaging 3.92 BLT stars.

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Stephen Blackmoore works in the grimy overlap between noir detective fiction and urban fantasy, and nobody does it with quite his particular brand of mean-streets brutality. His Eric Carter series — starting with City of the Lost and running through titles like Broken Souls and Bottle Demon — follows a necromancer navigating a Los Angeles haunted by gods, ghosts, and genuinely bad decisions. Blackmoore's prose is tight and punchy, with a first-person voice that owes as much to Raymond Chandler as it does to Jim Butcher. The humor is dark, the stakes are personal, and the magic feels genuinely dangerous rather than decorative. Readers who find most urban fantasy too soft-edged or too whimsical will find Blackmoore's work a satisfying corrective — morally complicated, frequently violent, and hard to put down.

Stephen Blackmoore's highest-rated book in our collection is Fire Season (3.99 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Fire Season

    Eric Carter • Book 4

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Dawn Ursula, Eva Wilhelm, Nora Achrati

    ★ 3.99 BLT Score (1.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (1.5K)
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    Broken Souls

    Eric Carter • Book 2

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Tia Shearer, Jacob Yeh, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffy

    ★ 3.96 BLT Score (3.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (3.1K)
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    Bottle Demon

    Eric Carter • Book 6

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Dawn Ursula, James Lewis

    ★ 3.95 BLT Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.1K)
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    Hungry Ghosts

    Eric Carter • Book 3

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Tia Shearer, Jacob Yeh, Zeke Altonn

    ★ 3.93 BLT Score (2.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (2.0K)
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    Cult Classic

    Eric Carter • Book 9

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Jessica Threet, Steve Wannall, Dawn Ursula, Holly Adams, Torian Brackett, Rana Kay, Alexandra Cohler, Richard Rohan, Ryan Dalusung

    ★ 3.92 BLT Score (747 ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (747)
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    Suicide Kings

    Eric Carter • Book 7

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Rana Kay, Nora Achrati

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (896 ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (896)
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    Ghost Money

    Eric Carter • Book 5

    by Stephen Blackmoore, Michael John Casey, Dawn Ursula, Nora Achrati, K'Lai Rivera

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (1.2K)
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