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Pub Date Mar 17 2026 | Archive Date Not set

Arc Manor | CAEZIK SF & Fantasy


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Description

All your favorite characters from the hugely popular and critically acclaimed  Twice as Dead are back in this exhilarating follow-up to the first book in the City of Shadows series.

Jack Mitchell, the hardboiled ex-military private eye is asked to help musician Oscar Ricks investigate Grampus Records (which he hopes to do while avoiding with the very unpleasant mob the rules this alternate 1940's Lost Angeles where the undead and dead co-exist).

Jack's complicated personal life also intertwines with the case, making the issue even more complicated. As he dives deeper into his investigation, he encounters danger at every turn, from physical altercations to supernatural threats.

To survive, let alone solve the case, Jack must rely on his wit, experience, the help of unlikely allies, and his street-smart instincts, to navigate the volatile world of mobsters, magic, and personal loyalty.

All your favorite characters from the hugely popular and critically acclaimed  Twice as Dead are back in this exhilarating follow-up to the first book in the City of Shadows series.

Jack Mitchell...


Advance Praise

For Book One (also available on NetGalley)

For the first book in the series (Twice as Dead): "Wisecracking, biracial private eye Jack Mitchell takes on a series of cases complicated by the supernatural in this sharp-edged urban fantasy from Turtledove (The Wagers of Sin). In a post-WWII Los Angeles, Mitchell, a combat vet haunted by wartime horrors, investigates a missing husband who may have been turned into a zombie and a vanished half-brother who just happens to be a vampire. He navigates the city’s segregated streets from the Vampire Village ghetto, where Jewish refugees handle daytime tasks for the incapacitated residents, through the jazz parlors of Central, where Charlie “Bird” Parker mesmerizes audiences, to the downtown centers of power, where corrupt cops shrug off grand jury indictments. Though the mystery elements sometimes feel underbaked, Turtledove admirably adheres to the noir aesthetic with his street-level focus on the resilience and resistance of society’s outcasts. Readers waiting for Walter Mosley's next hard-boiled novel will fill the time nicely with this sympathetic but unsentimental tale of the ghostly underclass." – Publishers Weekly

For Book One (also available on NetGalley)

For the first book in the series (Twice as Dead): "Wisecracking, biracial private eye Jack Mitchell takes on a series of cases complicated by the...


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Publicist: Lu Ann Sodano (publicist@arcmanor.com).

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Publicist: Lu Ann Sodano (publicist@arcmanor.com).

Interviews (various media) and online blogs and podcast appearances.

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781647101770
PRICE $32.99 (USD)
PAGES 280

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