Unholy Magic
core novel 2010 Downside Ghosts
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.07 (10,537 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345515582 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Chess Putnam, an agent of the Church of Real Truth, exposes people who fake hauntings for profit and stops the ghosts that are actually dangerous. She is working a celebrity assignment and trying to help desperate sex workers in Downside. When someone starts murdering them in gruesome ways, Chess believes a ghost is not responsible, but proving it puts her in the path of a killer. She is also caught between two men in her life as they and their employers move toward a violent confrontation. The novel is the second in the Downside Ghosts series, published by Del Rey in 2010, set in a dark urban fantasy world.
Where it sits
- Universe: Downside Ghosts
- Series: Downside Ghosts core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stacia Kane
Notes
- Del Rey paperback, July 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 2 of 5: previous Unholy Ghosts (2010) · next City of Ghosts (2010)
Sources
← Downside Ghosts dossier · All universes
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