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Richard Jury returns to the backstreets and back rooms of London in the New York Times-bestselling author's latest mystery. "Meet 15-year-old Jessica Anne Porter. She's a plucky teenager from a town near Chicago who spends most of her time hanging out, looking for something to eat, and finding a safe place to bed down for the night. Jessie's not a homeless person, though. She's an undead person. Turner's debut is a massively entertaining and seriously revisionist zombie novel. How revisionist? Well, her characters communicate with each other eloquently (although, to humans, it sounds like a lot of grunts). They remember their past lives: who they were, how they died. They have thoughts and emotions, and when a new kind of creature, a sort of human-zombie hybrid, appears out of nowhere, they feel fear. The author has taken the familiar zombie clichés and given them a good shake. Jessie, who's been dead for nine years, is as real and human a character as anyone you're likely to meet in the pages of a mainstream novel, and Turner has created a new zombie mythology that is smart, scary, and viscerally real. Recommend this one highly to horror fans, even those who claim to have sated themselves on zombies." -David Pitt, Booklist (starred review)