Death Maker - Paperback

by J. C. McKenzie (Author)

Raising the dead is the easy part.
It's the living who make things difficult.

Necromancy isn't about dark rituals or raising armies of the dead. It's paperwork. As a certified professional, I spend most of my time navigating regulations and raising the recently departed to settle inheritance disputes. It's a mundane job until the police bring me a case unlike anything I've handled before.

Usually, solving a murder is simple. I raise the victim, ask who did it, and let the police handle the rest. But now someone is leaving behind a trail of brutal killings and the dead aren't giving me answers.

While the investigation grows more complicated, the local vampires insist they need my help and offer a dangerous deal I can't refuse. Their secrets lead me to the Veil, where spirits rest and a mysterious castle keeps appearing.

I just want to earn enough to help my mom pay her medical bills, keep my less-than-legal work hidden from the cops, and avoid strangling one infuriatingly arrogant detective. Instead, I'm caught between a murder case, vampire politics, and a mystery buried deep within the Veil. If I can't figure out how these strange new problems connect, I'll go from making sacrifices to becoming one.

A deliciously dark urban fantasy tale with a flawed necromancer trying to survive a harsh supernatural world by international bestselling author J. C. McKenzie.