Zombie PI Matt Richter to star in Nekropolis

Publisher Angry Robot will release Tim Waggoner's Nekropolis as a 352-page mass market paperback in the UK, and in various ebook formats, on 6 August. The US, Canadian, and Australian releases will follow on 1 October. The book is the first of a trio of urban fantasies.

The book tells the story of Matt Richter, who is a private eye and a zombie. "His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. And in this first case, Richter must help a delectable half-vampire named Devona recover a legendary artifact known as the Dawnstone, before it's used to destroy Nekropolis itself. That is, if he can survive the myriad horrors that infest the city itself.