Killing Pretty

James Stark, known as Sandman Slim, has dealt with demons and angels both on earth and beyond. Now he faces the one figure most people avoid: Death. Someone has ripped the heart out of the body Death is inhabiting, and Death wants the killer found.

Death turns to Stark because of his record: he has outplayed Lucifer and the old gods, and Death reasons that nobody else could solve this murder. The trail leads Stark into the underside of Los Angeles. He passes through vampire-infested nightclubs, talent agencies that represent mad ghosts, mystical societies with roots in the Weimar Republic, and illegal supernatural fight clubs and sex clubs.

Along the way he meets a mysterious girl with graveyard eyes, as tough as he is. She is the only person who ever outwitted Death, and her escape has had dire consequences for the world and for a few others.

This is urban fantasy told in a hip, fast-moving voice, with murder, mayhem and magic in a strange, gritty LA. Stark has spent years fighting cosmic forces that want to destroy Heaven, Hell and Earth. This time the fight is on the streets of the City of Angels, where a clever and nervy killer waits for him.