Killing Pretty

A smart kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a new master of the genre. KILLING PRETTY is the seventh book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.James Stark has met his share of demons and angels on earth and beyond. Now he’s come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death.Someone has tried to kill Death - ripping the heart right out of him - or rather the body he’s inhabiting. Death needs Sandman Slim’s help: he believes anyone who can beat Lucifer and the old gods at their own game is the only one who can solve his murder.Stark follows a sordid trail deep into LA’s subterranean world from vampire-infested nightclubs to talent agencies specializing in mad ghosts from Weimar Republic mystical societies to sleazy supernatural underground fight and sex clubs. Along the way he meets a mysterious girl -distinguished by a pair of graveyard eyes - as badass as Slim: she happens to be the only person who ever outwitted Death. But escaping her demise has had dire consequences for the rest of the world . . . and a few others.For years Slim has been fighting cosmic forces bent on destroying Heaven Hell and Earth. This time the battle is right here on the gritty streets of the City of Angels where a very clever very ballsy killer lies in wait.In this top contemporary fiction Stark's journey through the dark underbelly of LA is both thrilling and humorous. The best of urban fantasy KILLING PRETTY showcases Richard Kadrey's knack for creating a world that is as terrifying as it is compelling.For fans of Benedict Jacka (An Inheritance of Magic) Ben Aaronovitch (False Value) Jim Butcher (The Olympian Affair) Luke Arnold (One Foot in the Fade) and Charles Stross (Dead Lies Dreaming).