Already Dead - Charlie Huston
Joe Pitts isn’t your usual kind of Private Investigator, but the case he has been assigned is a familiar one. The daughter of a rich family has gone missing – a wild child, she’s headed off to the city to slum it and there’s no knowing what kind of trouble she’s going to get into. Her mother, who is a bit of a lush, has hired Joe, as she’s heard that he has the right kind of contacts in the underworld of Alphabet City. The father wants to keep up appearances and doesn’t want the likes of Joe around, so he demands discretion, and wants him to report to him rather than the mother. It turns out that their daughter is in a lot more trouble than you can imagine, and so is Joe, who gets slipped a mickey and takes a few knocks. Sound familiar? Well, the only ‘Big Sleep’ about this one is the terminal condition of Joe Pitt. He’s already dead - a Vamprye. Joe is part of the underworld in Alphabet City that the ordinary citizens know nothing about, pushing the Vamypre clans underground, for...