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Gil's All Fright Diner and In the Company of Ogres, both by A. Lee Martinez, his first and second books, respectively. Gil's All Fright Diner is about two wandering friends, a vampire and a werewolf, that are traveling the western U.S. when they stumble into a very small town where the title's diner resides, where they are hired to take care of the diner's "zombie problem." Along the way they encounter zombies, zombie cows, a ghostly terrier that at one point regenerates his severed ectoplasmic head, teenage cultists, the undead spirit of a warlock trapped in a magic 8-ball, and a portal to the underworld and manage to prevent the end of the world. In the Company of Ogres takes place in your standard fantasy swords-and-sorcerers universe, and tells the tale of Never Dead Ned, an very droll, uninteresting, boring accountant in Brute's Legion, the most powerful mercenary army in the realm. Uninteresting, except, for his nasty habit of not staying dead, hence his name. By virtue of his exceptional service in the Accountancy department, he is given the command of Ogre Company, a unit in which every commander somehow always seems to end up dying mysteriously shortly after taking position. Of course he ends up finally discovering why it is he hasn't been properly dying, and why if he does, it could mean the end of the universe...but not before juggling the love interests of a Siren and an Amazonian warrior, surviving an attack by a wizard whose allergy to magic will eventually turn him into a platypus, avoiding a demon emporer after his secret, and not getting clobbered by Ogre Company itself. Both are fun, easy reading by an author that looks to have quite a few (at least mildly) entertaining stories in him. I don't demand a whole lot of my recreational reading, though. 
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