The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is a great vacation read fantasy series. It is about a modern day Wizard private eye. He is in Chicago, and has an ad in the phone book. No one takes him serious, but he is an actual wizard. The books read like an episode of a television cop show (he works closely with the local police Special Investigations unit), only with vampires and faeries and stuff. Pretty fun read, and you can blaze through the books in no time.