Unholy Ghosts
core novel 2010 Downside Ghosts
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.66 (16,832 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345515575 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In a world where the dead have risen, the Church of Real Truth pays citizens who are harassed by ghosts. Chess Putnam, a tattooed witch and ghost hunter, works for the Church, exposing fake hauntings and removing real ghosts. She owes money to the drug lord Bump, who sends her on a dangerous black-magic job. The assignment draws her into an investigation involving an abandoned airfield, a human sacrifice and a conspiracy inside the Church. The book launches the Downside Ghosts series, a dark, futuristic urban fantasy published by Del Rey as a mass market paperback in 2010, narrated by a heroine who is also a drug addict.
Where it sits
- Universe: Downside Ghosts
- Series: Downside Ghosts core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stacia Kane
Notes
- Del Rey paperback, June 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 1 of 5: next Unholy Magic (2010)
Sources
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