Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco

Unshapely Things takes place in an alternate Boston in which the world of Faerie and our world had a Convergence in 1900.  Various races of the Fey became stranded in the human world.  The Boston neighbourhood, where members of the Fey who live on the edges of society mingle, is called the Weird.  Conner Grey is a Druid who lives and works in the Weird. Formally he worked as an investigator for the Guild: the organization that polices the Fey races. He was injured during a case and can no longer access most of his abilities.  He now works as a consultant for the Boston police.
 Conner is called in to help in the investigation of a series of murders of Fairy prostitutes.  His police department contact is Murdock, an Irish cop from a family of Irish cops.  They soon discover there is more at stake than the fate of the denizens of the Weird.
 Del Franco’s alternate world is inhabited by interesting characters.  The different Fey races and how they interact with each other and the humans is fully realized.  Particularly interesting is how Del Franco intertwines the history of the Twentieth Century with his alternate world (many of the Elves were Nazi sympathizers, for example).  His descriptions of how the Fey’s magical abilities work are interesting but not intrusive in the story.
 This book is basically a hard-boiled detective story set in an alternate universe where the Fey live among us.  Fans of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files or Simon R. Green's Tales of the Nightside will enjoy this book.