num_pages: 304
description: Delightfully disgusting Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight World War Z and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole.ForeWord MagazineThis novel about a live dead girl combines an international chase the suspense of a thriller a soupon of sensuality some wonderfully lyrical episodes and a set of brand new rules for ghouls. It is as delectable and dangerous as a plate of fugu. I read it in a single sitting.Tim Cahill author of Pass the Butterworms Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My FleshLinda Watanabe McFerrin charms us with a winding tale of an evil enchantment. A wondrously wild story told as if the deadpan voice of Dashiell Hammett had been mixed with the song of an artful siren.Susan Griffin author of A Chorus of Stones and The Book of CourtesansZombies in Japan? You bet your life! Dead Love is an artful supernatural thriller that follows a cast of nefarious charactersboth human and otherworldlyas they foul one another's plans and power plays in a conspiracy of global proportions. It begins when Clment a lovesick ghoul falls for beautiful young Erin. Unfortunately she is marked for death by the Japanese mob (the yakuza). Using secrets learned from a Haitian witch doctor and taking us to Tokyo Amsterdam and Malaysia Clment finds a way to rescue and possess herbut not at all in the manner he expected.Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a Bay Areabased contributor to numerous journals newspapers magazines anthologies and online publications. She received the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and is the author of the award-winning novel Namako: Sea Cucumber and the short story collection The Hand of Buddha. Her website for her new book is deadlovebook.com.
language: English
title: Dead Love
publisher: Stone Bridge Press