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Half-Resurrection Blues, by Daniel José Older
There aren’t a lot of job opportunities out there for a man who’s half dead. On top of it, our protagonist doesn’t remember who he was before he died. He uses the name Carlos Delacruz because that’s what the ghost and voudon practitioner who helped him get back on his feet named him. Now, Carlos works for New York’s Council of the Dead as an enforcer. (He is hard to kill, after all.) He’s just set off on yet another mission from the Council of the Dead in Daniel José Older’s Half-Resurrection Blues when Carlos stumbles onto a terrifying scheme to destroy the barrier between the living and the dead...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.