Over the past two years I’ve released four Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novels, and also  seven standalone short cases that were published in various anthologies and magazines—and that’s enough for a book! WordFire Press will be releasing WORKING STIFF, The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, in a few months.

But wait, there’s more! (said in the voice of that guy on the TV commercials, telling you all about gadgets you never knew you HAD to have!)   Barry Hoffman at Gauntlet Press is also doing a special limited edition of WORKING STIFF.

The Gauntlet Press hardcover edition of WORKING STIFF will be signed and numbered, with a special introduction by me, an afterword by bestselling novelist (and good buddy of mine) Jonathan Maberry, and a bonus never-before-published Dan Shamble story.  These books will be autographed by me and by Jonathan Maberry, numbered, with a slipcase option; there’s even a very special lettered edition that contains even more new material.

The special edition starts at $60, and they’ve just gone on sale on the Gauntlet Press website.  Orders will be filled in the order received, so if you want a rare low number, you’d better move like a fast zombie!  The special edition is set for release this fall.

Back from the dead…and back on the case!

Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter—inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night—a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. “Shamble,” solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.

WORKING STIFF contains seven cases from the files of Chambeaux & Deyer Investigations. Dan Shamble has to solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist, finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he’s being taken, and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost “naughty and nice” list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees, or tracking down a kidnapped hellhound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry—it’s all in a day’s work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.