Looking for a monster hunter who files paperwork, rides ghost trains, and negotiates with cemetery staff by payphone? Meet Laszlo. He is a 900-year-old former king of Hungary who now works as a gargoyle operative for a shadow outfit called The Hand. His toolkit includes a saint’s mummified hand in a glass tube, a bottomless demon-skin bag, and a coin that can shackle souls. His beat starts in Dubuque and runs west on rails you cannot see.
Cold open in space: The book kicks off inside a TR-3...