So to sum up the original point, as I see it:

Murphy chose the morality of the Einherjar - face evil with a sword in hand and your love behind. That she did, many times.
The morality of TWG is to face human evil with love in your hand, and steel in your soul (the soulless evil can take a hike, apparently). That she didn't do as easy.

So while she did not choose after death to go be an einherjar, she chose it in LIFE. She chose to face Nick, with Sword in one hand, but not love in the other - perfect Einherjar, imperfect Holy Knight. She stood to defend Harry from Nick. And when the Jotuns came, though she shouldn't have, she stood with rocket launcher in hand and Harry behind. Perfect Einherjar, no points either way on the Knight scale.

And of course, at time TWG and his agents act as avenging angels instead, as at CI, or Michael after Nicks definitive refusal to repent in the vault. So they are not strangers entirely to the Einherjar mentality... which is why Uriel doesn't obliterate Odin for snatching souls, but has tea with him and discusses when a bared blade is more useful than an armed missionary.
Odin probably disagrees with Uriel on that, but when you have a universe-unmaker who disagrees with you but lets you do your thing... well even an Einherjar might make nice and be polite.

So one of my favourite theories is the reason Marcone has no trouble from local law enforcement is because he's made a deal on a government level.

It's happened before with senior Mob bosses.

What Marcone offers however is much more valuable as an informant then just organised crime activity. Marcone can inform on The Unseelie Accords and other supernatural powers.

Thats invaluable information for the US Government or even other World Governments.

Not to mention it just makes Marcone more powerful which he's always trying to increase.

Discuss.

When did it happen?

That is to say - I think if we go back far enough  with it happening, we should have seen SOME vague hint. I could buy we haven't heard if he flipped to informing around Changes or so, and totally buy it if he sent out feelers after Batlle Ground (I mean Harry spelled out that there'd be government agents watching the supernatural), but if he was there way back in Fool Moon? Nah.

Princess Buttercup is a very sweet and pretty mostly yellow Lab mix.. She and her two sisters were dumped at the side of the road at about four months of age. All three were full of ticks and dehydrated before someone too pity and picked them up.  She loves babies and children in general, she is also a decent cadaver dog with I can get her to concentrate.  Mr Harry Barry, is very much like our Harry Dresden, as an American Lab he is tall and leggy, had LOTS of energy, very vocal, very loving, he is my cuddle pup, very sensitive, he is also a fantastic area search dog, he only knows one speed though, very fast..

I get who Harry was named after Harry Houdini, and David Copperfield as well, it has been said often enough.  But I also agree with Mab about coincidences.. Interesting origins of names..

Molly ;
sea of bitterness
Molly (also spelled Molli or Mollie) is a diminutive of the Hebrew feminine name Mary. It may less commonly be used as a diminutive for popular feminine names that begin with M, such as Margaret, Martha, Martina or Melinda. It most commonly means “sea of bitterness”, “star of the sea”, or “rebelliousness/rebellion”.

That fits her, especially the rebellious part.

Carlos means "free man."

Michael means;
who is like God?
Origin: The name Michael is of Hebrew origin and means “who is like God?” or “gift from God.” It is found in the Old Testament, notably in the Book of Daniel.

Uriel means;
angel of light
u-riel. Origin:Hebrew. Popularity:922. Meaning:angel of light; flame of God.

Ebenezer means;
stone of help
History and Etymology for ebenezer
Hebrew ebhen hā-ʽezer stone of help; from the application of this name by Samuel to the stone which he set up in commemoration of God's help to the Israelites in their victory over the Philistines at Mizpah
Thomas means twin.. He isn't Harry's twin, but I am thinking what Harry saw in their soul gaze, Thomas and his very human mirror.
Just odd that the meanings for the most part of the names of the characters fit the character.  Jim does a lot of research, it seems like he may have taken the meaning of their names into account.

And Karrin/Katherine means Pure. John (of Marcone) means 'graced by God' or 'God is gracious'.

So yeah, some of them fit pretty perfectly, but the twice-divorced gritty detective and actual crimelord having these names inspires me to think it's not all worked out

(also I associate Harry with Henry/Heinrich = Home Ruler from Germanic, or Harold = Army commander, again from Germanic... not sure how the Hebrew comes in)

I think it's the other way around.

Sure, she's grumpy about not being able to walk - but with the blackstaff out in the world, it is active, bringing death and suffering to the world she can't walk in. She'd probably shatter mundane reality just by glaring, nevermind when amassing the magic oomph to drag a satellite onto a mansion.

I think a Dragon would trigger Mab calling back not just her guard, but some of those 40,000-faerie-strong formations round about the outer gates.

And at 10's of thousands plus Mab to one, it might not be so easy, especially when the Mothers take notice.

I'd say they were common phrases. Skin Game might be the least common, but other than that one, nobody has to guess at the meaning of each book title. I'm not sure that "Downer Ending" is common enough knowledge to be both a known phrase and also an illusion to the events of a book about a wedding and manhunt.

And besides, it'd be too much of a spoiler. He couldn't name Changes "SNIPER BULLET". 

I dunno, I'd have spent the whole book wondering if Kincaid was gonna come and shoot the Red King 

Most of these aren't really idioms or common phrases, though, right? I'd say Cast Away, Court Cases, Lady Love are, but the only one of those that gets close to plot adjacent is Lady Love, and that'd have more to do with Molly than Lara. I could see Court Cases being about issues between the courts, a la Lara and Molly, but Molly is playing ball as far as we know.

Eh, Downer Ending seems like an idiom to me. And... was Cold Days or Ghost Story really that much more idiomatic?

Tha said I'm not gonna claim they were all brilliant :p

Harry isn't an idiot.  He's up against Things that have been around for much longer than he has.  Some of them were around when being able to read was a rare thing.  The supernatural world is survival of the fittest, and he's up against Things that are the smartest, and most dangerous because if they weren't, they would be dead.

And some of them die because a wizard sneezes :p