Dead Is Beautiful

DEAD IS BEAUTIFUL, finds Rose leading Charlie from the peace of the afterlife to the place he hates most on earth, "Beverly Fucking Hills," where a mature, protected tree harboring a protected bird is being illegally cut down.

The tree-assault leads Charlie and Rose to a to murder and to the person Charlie loathes most in life and in death, the sibling he refers to only as "his shit brother," who is in danger.

Charlie fights-across the borders of life and death - for the man who never fought for him, and with the help of a fearless Scotsman, a beautiful witch, and a pissed-off owl, Charlie must stop a cruel and exploitative scheme and protect his beloved Rose.

"Splendid -- the best book yet in one of today's best-written and most imaginative series. There's nothing like it." --Timothy Hallinan

"... wickedly entertaining, hardboiled supernatural deftness."-Gary Phillips, author *Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers"

"Like 'The Wire' meets 'The Tibetan Book Of The Dead,'"-Derek Farrell, author of the Danny Bird mysteries: *Death of a Diva, Death of a Nobody, Death of a Devil


Genre: Cozy Mystery