The Vengeful Dead
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Publisher Description
She's the FBI's go-to expert on Chicago's most brutal supernatural crimes. But a bloodthirsty, revenge-crazed killer is using her deepest fears as a terrifying weapon. . .
Jackie Rutledge just can't put her past to rest. Her Bureau partner is dead, but not gone. And her sanity is becoming as fragile as her career. Worst of all, a wrenching journey into Deadworld has given her unwanted new abilities—and exhuming memories she hoped to keep buried . . .
Now a merciless force capable of possessing humans is on a killing spree, destroying the guilty and innocent alike. It isn't long before Jackie is a prime suspect, struggling to stay two steps ahead of her savvy new partner, and her undead P.I. and paramour, Nick. But to clear her name, she'll have to take on her greatest challenge yet: confronting an inner darkness as inescapable as the one she hunts—and capable of annihilating more than her soul . . .
Praise for Deadworld
"The perfect dark fantasy." --Kat Richardson
"Bloody, delicious, twisted."--Lilith Saintcrow, New York Times bestselling author of the Jill Kismet, Hunter series
"Duncan's deftly subtle debut creeps up on you like a ghost in the night."
--Mark Henry, author of Happy Hour of the Damned
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Duncan follows April 2011's Deadworld with a tame paranormal thriller. FBI agent Jackie Rutledge is depressed, bored, and tired of reliving the horrifying paranormal events that killed fellow agent Laurel Carpenter. Having tried and failed to hide from the world, Jackie returns to work, only to find that now she can hear, see, and feel the thoughts of murder victims. She also learns that Laurel's ghost is wandering around Chicago. In between freak-outs, Jackie acquires a team of paranormal assistants: Nick Anderson, a vampire PI who of course is attracted to Jackie; his assistant, Cynthia, also a vampire; and his office manager, Shelby, a powerful psychic. A murder in gang territory provides something like plot for the Scooby gang to unravel. When the action starts, about 300 pages in, it's genuinely exciting but too little, too late.
