I have decided to add Artemis Fowl to my magical repertoire.
Artemis Fowl: This is not absolutely based on magic as the others were. This is set in the modern day world, with a criminal mastermind called Artemis Fowl. He is also from a long line of very rich and very unscrupulous ancestors and has inherited his keen business sense from them. However, he turns to a very unlikely source for replenishing and increasing the family wealth- fairies. These are not the wand-wielding, sweet, simpering fairies of fairy tales but dangerous gun-holding creatures who have their own world under the earth. Artemis finds out about them and kidnaps a young military officer called Holly Short. He asks for ransom at the cost of her death and their discovery by the human world. This is basically the first book. The others have the same characters and are also very good.