*Drinking Midnight Wine * by Simon R Green isn’t about werewolves per se, but there is a pretty cool werewolf in the story who is one of the good guys.
Like Avalonian, I immediately thought of The Talisman. Not all the “wolfs” in the book are good, but the one that we become most familiar with is very good indeed.
I cried when he died 
Thanks! And the book you mentioned is A Midsummer’s Tempest, which involves the supernatural peoples from both “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest” in the English Civil war (in an alternate history in which all of Shakespeare’s plays are literal history).
Yep, Baldwin, that was the one I was thinking about.
Was that the one about a werewolf who was a WWII British agent or something?
You could try a book by Sparkle Hayter, called “Naked Brunch”. I don’t know if it is quite along the lines of what you are looking for, but I read it last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.
It is quite amusing in parts, but just a great novel on the whole, IMHO.
Yes it is.
“Wolfland” By Tanith Lee is only one story in her anthology, Red As Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer. It is, indeed, sympathetic to shapeshifting. All the other perversely twisted tales in that book are worth a look; the title story resembles “Snow White” yet the beautiful princess is a vampire.
Also in that vein: Sabella, Or, The Blood Stone–her “science fiction vampire novel”.
There’s The Complete Werewolf by Anthony Boucher.
And IIRC it’s The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell that has a sympathetic werewolf/demon in it.
The Passion and The Promise (two books) by Donna Boyd offer a view of werewolves as a long-lived dynasty of superior beings (with investment savvy). These books read like historicals, with a touch of romance. I really liked them, and am waiting for her to write another. The family history isn’t finished yet.
Peter David’s hard-to-find Howling Mad features a wolf that was bitten by a lycanthrope, so he has to cope with periodic bouts of being furless and walking around upright… 
“Hard To Find?”
I found it in my public library.
http://waldo.library.nashville.org/search/t?SEARCH=Howling+Mad
Neil Gaiman has two short stories in his Smoke and Mirrors book featuring a werewolf detective. Gaiman pulls off one of the worst title puns in recent memory by writing a story that pits the werewolf detective against a creature that comes out of the sea onto a California beach and slays young men. The title? Bay Wolf (get it?).
Lucky you… it’s not at mine…
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“Hard To Find?”
I found it in my public library.
http://waldo.library.nashville.org/...RCH=Howling+Mad
Ask your Librarian about Interlibrary Loans. In many Library Systems, you can arrange loans from Librarys all ove the US. In my case, I can even get this service free!
I’m in Canada so from the US won’t work lol…
I’ll just go check out my bookstores that are around… we have plenty of second hand ones that I like to browse
You may also enjoy Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. A great book that I believe is going to be a series.
Cats
And there was a book by Jack Williamson – let’s see… it was called Darker Than You Think. Thought I had a copy, but it must have been lost in my house fire in 1986. Lost hundreds of books, some of them pretty rare. (Burglary/arson, actually; if I caught the guy who did it, I’d go werewolf on his ass.)
Anyway, the novel, as I recall, posited that lycanthropes were genetic throwbacks to a species that once shared the world with, and dominated, Homo Sapiens.
I shopuld probably point out here that if you actually read carefully and think things through rather than just accept the Garou version of things, you’re likely to quickly come to the conclusion that Werewolves are inherently blood-saked madmen who need to be beaten until they die from it, incompetant cosmic losers who constantly screw up the world, and worthless layabouts who have accomplished nothing since the dawn of time.
Come to think of it, every one of their “Changing Breed” creatures seems to be an incompetant loser, with the possible exception of the Kitsune, who are generally useless for any task that requires their attention for more than five minutes. No wonder their all dieing out (although some idiot game author screwed up and printed a formula for their population that would have given them a populaton vastly larger than any of their previous populations in history. WHite WHolf was not known for having smart writers. Good writers maybe, but not smart ones.
An excellent novella on the subject is George R.R. Martin’s “The Skin Trade.” It was released as a trade paperback about 10 years ago. I wonder why nobody has made a movie of it.