Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job introduced us to Charlie Asher, a reluctant Death Merchant, widower, and beta male. Shortly after his wife’s death, Charlie receives a copy of the Great Big Book of Death informing him that his new job is to collect objects that serve as vessels for their owners souls once the owner is done with them. Charlie’s screw ups lead to the near takeover of the forces of darkness in San Francisco (the Morrigan and Orcus). Secondhand Souls picks up one year after the dramatic conclusion of A Dirty Job. Charlie’s soul is stuck, temporarily he hopes, in a meat puppet created by his Buddhist girlfriend. His daughter is being raised by Charlie’s sister and her wife. Life has carried on in San Francisco. So has death. Minty Fresh continues to collect soul vessels. Inspector Rivera has not, even though he knows he’s one of the city’s new Death Merchants. Rivera’s mistake means that the forces of darkness are once again on the rise and it’s up to the motley crew of fuck ups, goths, ghosts, Buddhist nuns, and the rest to make it right...

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