Murder has always been there for Angie. He stood loyally by her side in the Colorado wildfires, and he led her to safety in Big Bend National Park. But now they are hunting zombies in the city, joining the City of Houston Zombie Task Force. Their mission is to discover the source of weaponized zombies and prevent gangs from using them. Working with police detectives and curanderos, Angie and Murder work their way through Houston’s criminal underworld, but at what price? Angie must remember, Murder is her responsibility, her loyal friend, and her fur-baby. Can she protect him as well as he has protected her?

-Of the first three books, this one is the “squirmiest.” The first chapter, in particular, ends viscerally. Just a note to the reader.

-Disaster City is a real place. While the training scene that takes place there is different from training that normally occurs there, I have trained in Disaster City with my cadaver dog.

-I learned about the form of brujo’s curse used in the book during research I was doing into curanderismo.

-The large underground system exists in Houston. You can take tours.