Dead Men's Boots

A freelance exorcist grapples with demons, lawyers, and a serial killer’s ghost in this supernatural thriller by the author of The Girl with All the Gifts.

“Every bit as good as the better-known Jim Butcher, Carey hits his stride with his third hard-boiled supernatural thriller. . . . Carey has a way with words . . . as well as a gift for creating a plausible alternate reality.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

You might think that helping a friend’s widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband’s corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.

A brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. He’s also fighting a legal battle over the body—if not the soul—of his possessed friend, Rafi, and can’t shake the feeling that his three problems might be related.

With the help of the succubus Juliet and paranoid zombie data-fence Nicky Heath, Castor just might have a chance of fitting the pieces together before someone drops him down an elevator shaft or rips his throat out. Or not . . .

“Readers expect Fix’s adventures . . . to be peppered with bons mots, lots of creatures of the formerly alive kind and tsunamis of action, and this new outing won’t disappoint. . . . Readers seeking a leisurely summer read won’t find it in this irresistible tale, which will have them staying up much too late for the pleasure of “just one more chapter” before dousing the lights.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)