Dead Witch Walking
core novel 2004 The Hollows
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (130,341 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 416 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780061567193 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Rachel Morgan is a witch working as a bounty hunter in a futuristic, alternate-history Cincinnati where vampires, witches, werewolves, and other supernatural beings live openly among humans after a genetically engineered virus known as the Turn decimated the human population. She leaves her contract-bound job at the vampire-run federal agency Inderland Security to found a freelance runner and security business with a living vampire, Ivy Tamwood, and a pixy, Jenks, operating out of a deconsecrated church in the Hollows district of Covington, Kentucky. Her former employer, unwilling to simply let a valuable runner walk away, puts a death threat contract on her head, forcing Rachel to prove herself on the job while dodging assassins sent to silence her for good.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Hollows
- Series: The Hollows core; position 1 of 18 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Kim Harrison
Notes
- From the series record (The Hollows): Urban-fantasy sequence starring witch/bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan, set in an alternate Cincinnati after a genetic plague reveals supernatural species living alongside humans.
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 The Hollows: position 1 of 18: next The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (2005)
Sources
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