Recently read notable books

 The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison

Crow is an angel without a domain, which makes him very suspect indeed. Dr. J.H. Doyle is recently ex- Her Majesty's Armed Forces in Afghanistan, now in London with a bad limp and insufficient money. Soon enough they take up lodgings together at 221B Baker Street, and they fight crime.  Very good.

DIRE: BORN, SEED, TIME, WARS, DINS, HELL, by Andrew Seiple

In a world of slightly retro-future super-science, the good guys are too concerned with playing cops and robbers to actually do much good. Therefore, Dire will be seen as a villain. Dire does not care. Dire is going to make the world a better place, no matter that she has to defeat Nazis and demons along the way.  Unpolished, perhaps, but also very good.