Underground

August 1, 2008
Homeless denizens of Seattles Pioneer Square are turning up dead and sometimes mutilated, but the police have no sense of urgency, given the victims status. Which leaves PI Harper Blaine to investigate. Having returned from the dead, she isnt quite as human as she once was. Shes a Greywalker, with a foot on both sides of an invisible line separating the normal and paranormal worlds. She sees energy auras as easily as she does the zombies now appearing in the Underground, the city beneath the raised roads and sidewalks of modern Seattle. Even the area vampires want no part of Harpers inquiries into an ancient Native American monster that might be reawakening during such disasters as earthquakes, fires, and the citys subsequent reconstructions. Part Indian folklore, part detailed urban history, part PI procedural, part monster-from-the-depths horror story, the third Greywalker caper (after Greywalker, 2006, and Poltergeist, 2007) proceeds gorily and occasionally slowly through various plot twists to an inevitable showdown when forces of the past invade the present.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)