Ghost Train to New Orleans
Book 2 of the Shambling Guides, the cosy fantasy series in which a human writes travel guides for the undead
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Publisher Description
COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER? OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK?
Zoe 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 Shambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel, and to find the best beignet pastry in the city, of course.
Her writing isn't all that brings her to New Orleans. The only person who can save Zoe's new boyfriend from zombism is rumoured to live in the city's swamps, but she's out of her element in the wilderness. With colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumours of something hunting citytalkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?
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Zo Norris (introduced in The Shambling Guide to New York City) writes travel books for the coterie, America's community of supernatural entities. Zo is human, but her boss is a vampire, her bestie is a death goddess, and at least one of her coworkers wants to eat her. Dispatched with her team to create a guide book for exotic New Orleans, Zo finds betrayal, disquieting revelations, power, and danger. Team members go rogue and demon dogs stalk the streets while Zo learns more about the history of her fellow citytalkers and sleepwalks into a confrontation with one of New Orleans's deadliest figures. Lafferty's writing has an easy style that draws the reader in, and while many of the elements are familiar from other urban fantasies, she manages to shape the well-worked clay in entertaining new ways.
