Ready for a giveaway? Have I got a book for you! I loved Department Zero‘s wacky, Lovecraft-inspired, gore-splattered humor, and I think you will too! Not sure it’s your type of book? Well I have that covered as well. You can read an excerpt below first, then enter to win at the end of this post. The wonderful folks at Pyr Books are offering up TWO copies to U.S. or Canadian readers, so if you hail from those countries, don’t miss out!
THE END OF THE UNIVERSE IS ONLY A HOP, SKIP, AND SLIGHT STUMBLE-THROUGH-A-WORMHOLE AWAY
Harry Priest just wants to make sure his ex-wife doesn’t take away his visitation rights, and his dead-end job cleaning up crime scenes for the past ten years isn’t doing him any favors.
But when Harry attends what he thinks is a routine death, he stumbles onto a secret multiverse of alternate realities all reachable through universe-hopping gates. Policing these worlds is Havelock Graves, the Interstitial Crime Department’s top agent for ten years running (according to him). When Harry accidentally messes with the ICD crime scene, Graves and his team are demoted as low as they can go: Department Zero. They’re recruiting Harry too—not because he charmed them, but because he just might hold the key to saving the universe…and getting their old jobs back.
To do this, Graves and his team set out to solve the crime that lost them their jobs. A crime that involves a cult planning to hunt down and steal the fabled Spear of Destiny in order to free the Great Old One Cthulhu from his endless sleep in the Dreamlands. (Because that’s another thing Harry soon finds out. Everything H. P. Lovecraft wrote is true. Like, everything.)
The team will have to fight its way through realities filled with Martian technology and evade mad priests (Harry’s favorite kind) in a realm of floating landmasses where magic really exists.
And Harry has to do it all in time to say good night to his daughter.
Read an Excerpt:
PAUL CRILLEY is a Scotsman adrift in South Africa and has been writing professionally for the past 17 years. In that time he has worked on over thirteen television shows, one of which was nominated for an international Emmy award.
He has written eight novels, worked on five computer games, and also written comics for IDW. His previous novels include The Invisible Order books, a middle grade series about a hidden war being fought between various factions of faeries in the streets of Victorian London, The Adventures of Tweed & Nightingale, about a teenage clone of Sherlock Holmes, and My Zombie Hamster, (written under the pseudonym Havelock McCreely). Poison City is his debut adult novel.
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I have this one on my wishlist (goodreads and amazon.com) as it sounds really interesting. Heard good things! 🙂
Enough of you have read this that I am ready to give it a shot. Quirky dialog a plus.
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I like the idea of a wacky alternative universe, so this would be great to read. Thank you for the contest!
Seems like something I’d enjoy.
Sounds like fun. Thanks for the contest!
I’m with Nathan, love the quirky dialogue!
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It’s a fun book. Good luck to those entering the giveaway!
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The plot and cover!
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What intrigues me most is I haven’t read a book quite like this genre. It sounds very interesting.
You had me at Interstitial Crime Department.
This sounds like a fun book, I’m looking forward to reading it.
SOBSSSS. I just read his Poison City and have been BUSTING to get my hands on this 🙁
This one sounds fun!
I am so curious about what happens in this book.
I am very interested in weird and gory stories, so this one looks like it fits the bill! LOL
I am interested in the clash of universes. I want to see what beings and mysteries are in this story.