Corpselight

Book Title: Corpselight
ISBN: 9781784294342
By Author(s):SLATTER ANGELA
By Publisher:QUERCUS
Format:TPB

Watch out, Harry Dresden, Kinsey Milhone and Mercy Thompson: there’s a new kick-ass guardian in town and Verity Fassbinder’s taking no nonsense from anyone, not even the fox-spirit assassins who are invading Brisbane in this fast-pacedsequel toVIGIL.

Life in Brisbane is never simple for those who walk between the worlds.

Verity’s all about protecting her city, but right now that’s mostly running surveillance and handling the less exciting cases for the Weyrd Council – after all, it’s hard to chase the bad guys through the streets of Brisbane when you’re really,reallypregnant.

‘Verityis thebest thingabout the book . . . she’s asurly, straight-talking, Doc Marten-wearing punchbagwho investigatesWeyrd-related crimeon behalf of the beleaguered “normal” police’ (SFX)

An insurance investigation sounds pretty harmless, even if it is for ‘Unusual Happenstance’. That’s not usually a clause Normals use – it covers all-purpose hauntings, angry genii loci, ectoplasmic home invasion, demonic possession, that sort of thing – but Susan Beckett’s claimed three times in three months. Her house keeps getting inundated with mud, but she’s still insisting she doesn’t need or want help . . . until the dry-land drownings begin.

V’s first lead in takes her to Chinatown, where she is confronted by kitsune assassins. But when she suddenly goes into labour, it’s clear the fox spirits arenotgoing to be helpful.

Corpselight, the sequel toVigil, is the second book in theVerity Fassbinderseries by award-winning author Angela Slatter.

‘Simply put: Slatter can write! She forces us to recognise the monsters that are ourselves’Jack Dann, award-winning author.