I think the three books are not sufficiently independent to read other than as a series. It's a fairly Buffy-esque setting, with a couple of conscious references, though also a number of important differences. We have five old races - the gargoyles, djinns, dragons and selkies, each affiliated with one of the four traditional elements, and the vampires which are somehow separate - dealing with the dangerous business of interacting with the contemporary human world. I saw the author summarise the setting of the first book back at P-Con in a sentence: "Margrit's met the perfect man, except that he's a gargoyle and he's wanted for murder" - at which someone sitting behind me called to her, "I do not think that word means what you think it means: 'Perfect'." These three books take mizkit's urban fantasies to new territory: specifically New York rather than Seattle, and with her heroine a feisty lawyer rather than a mechanically-minded policewoman.
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