The Pale House Devil

Richard Kadrey

Our Take

In a world filled with books upwards of 1,000 pages and series that never seem to end, this was a refreshing glass of zombie juice. The characters worked, the story grabbed, and you don't have to quit your day job to get through it.

Their Take

Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries - one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California. As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover a legacy of blood, sacrifice and slavery in the house. Forced to confront a powerful creature unlike anything they've faced before, they come to learn that the most frightening monster might not be the one they're hunting...

- Their Take is the book description listed at Bookshop.org