A Dirty Job
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 27, 2007
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy.
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- Who it’s for
- A gritty comic mash-up that keeps the pace brisk and the tone cheerfully off-kilter.
- Genres
- Urban Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy, The Occult & Supernatural
- Published
- HarperCollins, March 27, 2007
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Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
Grit with a Wink
A gritty comic mash-up that keeps the pace brisk and the tone cheerfully off-kilter.
Come here for
- hard-boiled snap with a comic wink
- edgy, sustained read
Expect
- mystery friction with fantasy detours
- dark humor, not gentle
Where it sits
| Humorous Fantasy | 55% |
|---|---|
| Urban Fantasy | 37% |
| The Occult & Supernatural | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Plays
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Paranormal Fantasy
- Humorous Fantasy
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- Funny Fiction
- The Occult & Supernatural
- Contemporary Romance
- Fantasy Romance
- Authors
- Christopher Moore
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 27, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- American Plays