Deader Still(2009)

Anton Strout

Back in his criminal past, Simon Canderous never imagined himself in a nine-to-five job—much less a nine-to-five a.m. one. But that’s what you get when you work on the side of good, for Manhattan’s woefully underfunded Department of Extraordinary Affairs.

It’s been 737 days since the Department’s 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—Simon discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Plus Simon’s girlfriend is studying technomancy a little clo closely with her boss; his mentor, Connor, seems to be hiding something from him; and a dangerous old flame has blown into town and threatens to make his life a living hell unless he helps her out with one last art heist. Simon’s workday may never end—until his life does…