Books in the Pine Cove series

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally - well, to be accurate, artificially - business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave. A beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor fa ade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy travelling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.

Robin Coal asks his straight housemate to be his pretend boyfriend for his high school reunion to keep him safe from his dangerous ex-boyfriend.

Bodyguard Scout discovers his hot one-night stand is his new client, but Emery doesn't remember him!

Micha's in trouble with the law. Swift discovers he has a fiver year old daughter. Micha's been in love with Swft since he was a teenager. Could they somehow make a family?

Lawyer Elias has a silly crush on Ben, a baker almost half his age. But when Ben inherits millions, Elias will do anything to protect him from his scheming family, including flying all the way to Englad to confront them. But in the idilic countryside, Elias's crush doesn't seem so silly anymore...