Tuesday, July 25, 2017

What is Jo Perry reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Jo Perry, author of Dead is Good.

Her entry begins:
I am reading a bunch of things at once, among them Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Mary Roach's hilarious history and account of the search for life after death––and when it's not found––a catalogue the inventive and grotesque fakes produced to con the gullible, the heartbroken and the wishful. I've learned that the desire for the immortal is...[read on]
About Dead Is Good, from the publisher:
A woman opens fire on the North Hollywood Police Precinct and is almost immediately shot dead by the L.A.P.D.

Another woman throws herself off the edge of Santa Monica Pier.

One is suicide, one is art…

Welcome to the world of Charlie & Rose, everyone’s favourite ghost detectives.

Summoned once again from the afterlife, and cursed by death to only ever be on-lookers into the lives of the living, Charlie and his dog companion Rose do their best to protect the only woman Charlie has ever loved.

Life, it seems, is much more complicated than death, and very quickly Charlie & Rose find themselves attempting to untangle a complicated and deadly web of suicide, art, drug gangs and the illegal sweat-shops of downtown Los Angeles.
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