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Simon Canderous is in trouble yet again, but this time, his knack for psychometry may not be enough to save him.

In Deader Still, sequel to Dead To Me, author Anton Strout sends Simon (a rookie in New York City's Department of Extraordinary Affairs) on a high stakes assignment: find out what killed (and drained the blood from) a boatload of lawyers. Vampire? Maybe, but New York has been vampire-free for more than 700 days. (Whew!)

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It's been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affairs' last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boat full of dead lawyers is found in the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometry—the ability to divine the history of an object by touching it—agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now, his workday may never end—until his life does.

(Source: Ace)