City of Ghosts
core novel 2010 Downside Ghosts
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (9,448 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345515599 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Chess Putnam, a Church of Real Truth witch and ghost hunter, investigates mangled corpses in Downside. She works with the Black Squad agency while bound by a spell, and she must also deal with a crime boss, wraiths and the underground City of Eternity. The novel is the third book in Stacia Kane's Downside Ghosts series, a paranormal urban fantasy set in a world where the dead have risen and a church controls how ghosts are handled. It was published by Del Rey as a mass market paperback of about 416 pages in 2010, and it continues Chess's struggle to balance her dangerous work, her debts and her personal entanglements.
Where it sits
- Universe: Downside Ghosts
- Series: Downside Ghosts core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stacia Kane
Notes
- Del Rey paperback, August 2010
- From the series record (Downside Ghosts): Chess Putnam, a witch and ghost debunker, takes dangerous jobs in a Church-ruled world where the dead rose.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Downside Ghosts: position 3 of 5: previous Unholy Magic (2010) · next Sacrificial Magic (2012)
Sources
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