Already Dead by Charlie Huston, is a mystery/detective story with a twist. If you are a fan of mysteries with just a touch of horror thrown in you will love this book.
Joe Pitt lives in New York City and is infected with the Vyrus. While he does not have steady employment he gets by doing odd jobs for two of the powerful clans who control the streets.
While searching for a shambler (someone infected with a flesh eating bacteria) he is asked by the leader of the Coalition to find the missing daughter of high soceity parents, a daughter who gets a thrill out of slumming with the inhabitents of the goth underworld.
Before long Joe(and the reader) is caught up in a battle over turf and a desire to save the girl despite the odds against both him and her.
As far as aforementioned twist goes, the Vyrus Joe is infected with turns people into vampires. Not in the Anne Rice or Bram Stoker sense but vampires just the same. Vampires who must feed on human blood without leaving unexplained corpses littering the landscape. Vampires who in Joe's case feed humanely and without spreading the Vyrus to others.
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