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Originally Posted by s1mp13m4n
Now to switch things up a bit, I also liked Lawrence Block the Bernie Rhodenbarr series and the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series, so any ideas based on those as well?  |
Well, I've never read Lawrence Block and have only vague acquaintance with Janet Evanovich, but Wikipedia says these are semi-humorous mystery series about a burglar and a bounty hunter respectively?
In which case you'll be wanting humorous caper-type fantasy, perhaps, which redoubles the recs for
Terry Pratchett's
Discworld (I think you'll especially enjoy
Pyramids).
John Moore also does good humorous adventure-type fantasy which satirizes fairy tale tropes. He's got a
free novel in PDF format on his website that you can try, although it's not quite like his regular work.
Steven Brust's
Vlad Taltos series is excellent, with a low-key, sardonic humour provided by the narrator, who well appreciates the absurdity of life (he's an assassin, by the way).
I've never read them myself, but
Robert Asprin &
Lynn Abbey's
Thieves' World series is supposed to be semi-classic. Asprin is well known as a humour writer and there's been some kind of push in recent years to reprint his books, though not necessarily these ones.
For a lighter read,
Anne Logston did some fairly nice breezy action-adventure novels with her
Shadow series about a elven thief in a mixed elven-human city. Available DRM-free via Fictionwise, which occasionally has 40%+ discount coupons.
If you want capers set in "our" world and are willing to have a dose of supernatural horror in them,
Nick Pollotta's written a few humorous novels, also available via Fictionwise. I liked the
Bureau 13 series about a government agency tasked with dealing with supernatural incursions (they're an RPG spin-off, in case you like to avoid those), and he's also got one with Victorian British explorers on the trail of Cthulhu which I'm partway through. The writing is very much on the non-serious side.
For fantasy mysteries,
Randall Garrett's
Lord Darcy series is generally well thought-of (I keep meaning to read them myself, but haven't got around to it yet) and available DRM-free via Baen.
Also, there's any number of hard-bitten urban fantasy series which you might enjoy. From what I know of them, it seems that
Jim Butcher's
Dresden Files and
Kim Harrison's
The Hollows series sound pretty close to Stephanie Plum in character and flavour.