Ghost Train to New Orleans

A travel writer for monsters heads south for her latest assignment—and to stop her boyfriend from becoming a zombie—in this urban fantasy adventure.

Could you find a museum for a monster?

Or a jazz bar for a jabberwock?

Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she’s good at it too—her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel.

Work isn’t all that brings Zoe to the Big Easy. The only person who can save her boyfriend from zombism is rumored to live in the city’s swamps, but Zoe’s out of her element in the wilderness. With her supernatural colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumors of a new threat hunting city talkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?

“Lafferty’s writing has an easy style that draws the reader in . . . She manages to shape the well-worked clay in entertaining new ways.” ?Publishers Weekly

“This book, like its predecessor, feels inhabited and alive. . . . Even more entertaining than The Shambling Guide.” —Locus