In a universe where the mundane world and a fairy land mingle, an utterly incompetent and irresponsible private eye is hired to protect an elf rock star. She no sooner gets on the job than she turns into a groupie completely distracted by sex and drugs. A great deal of the story concerns her childhood memories of incestuous sex abuse. Michaels eventually tries to make some of her characters attractive, but it's much to little and much to late for me. ( )

Cold Iron is not a bad story about a PI hired to figure out if someone is trying to murder the leader of the band. However, it is mislabeled as a fantasy book. There happen to be elves in the story but they are people like anybody else. There is nothing in the book that makes it a fantasy book. ( )