Dead Matter (38 page)

 

He is currently hard at work on the next book featuring Simon Canderous and can be found lurking the darkened hallways of
www.antonstrout.com
.

For this paranormal investigator,
it’s business as unusual …

 

 

 

 

by Anton Strout

 

1.
The power to touch an object and divine information about its history

2.
For Simon Canderous: not as cool as it sounds

 

Possessing the power of psychometry never did much for Simon Canderous, until it landed him a job with New York City’s Department of Extraordinary Affairs. But he’s not at all prepared for the strange case that unfolds before him—one involving politically correct cultists, a homicidal bookcase, and the forces of Darkness, which kind of have a crush on him …

—Charlaine Harris,
New York Times
bestselling author

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affairs’ last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boatful of dead lawyers is found on the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometry—the ability to divine the history of an object by touching it—Agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now his workday may never end—until his life does.

 

 

 

 

 

DON’T MISS THE NEW
CALLIOPE REAPER-JONES NOVEL FROM
AMBER BENSON

 

 

 

cat’s
claw

 

Following her father’s kidnapping, Calliope Reaper-Jones was inextricably drawn back into the (dreaded) supernatural world in order to save him and his company, Death, Inc.

 

 

But now that life has seemingly gone back to normal, she has once again sworn off the Afterlife and all the insanity that goes along with being Death’s Daughter … That is until she receives a mysterious visit from an aura specialist and unhappily discovers that a debt she owes Cerberus, the three-headed Guardian of the North Gate of Hell, has finally come due.