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'Meet Reed Lavender, mostly-human nephew to Death herself, a man with the ability to hear the final words of the recently deceased.

'Using those words and his own investigative skills, Reed does his best to solve crimes or bring peace, joined by his Reaper relatives and demi-gods - some of whom are actually helpful and others who only think they are.

'On Reed's latest case, this time trying to solve the murder of a teen runaway, he uncovers something far bigger and darker beneath his city, something vast, something that is ripening to rot...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Things aren't exactly getting easier for Reed Lavender. Old obligations and new cases are piling up but in the aftermath of Feronia's defeat, answers are still too thin on the ground. But one clue - his father's knucklebone - might just lead to something big. To learn the truth about his parents' disappearance, Reed will have to take the fight to whoever is behind the growing turmoil in his city. And if the rising number of Spirit-Worms, needy Gods, vindictive lawmen and only somewhat-helpful cousins don't stop Reed, then his sense of duty might do what the others cannot. Because Reed now finds himself caught between two goals - solving the murder of Elise or chasing down whoever stole the Goddess' hand, an unfathomable thief who might hold answers about his parents...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.