Secret Dead Men by Duane Swierczynski

Secret Dead Men by Duane Swierczynski

• Del Farmer isn't your ordinary hardboiled private eye. Instead of collecting fingerprints or clues, he collects souls of the recently dead. His latest dead guy, Brad Larsen, might just be the key to destroying Farmer's longtime nemesis, The Association. Of course, Farmer is sadly mistaken. An FBI agent unstuck in time is toying with him. A mysterious couple keeps trying to kill him. Another job -- a mundane babysitting gig that pays the bills -- is threatening to steer him way off course into a violent hell of sexual deceit, fractured identities and cheap apartment toilets.

Duane Swierczynski is the author of various crime novels, including the Shamus Award-winning Fun and Games, the first in the Charlie Hardie series from Mulholland Books, and the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony Award-winning Expiration Date. Several of these books are currently being adapted for film and television. He now writes Judge Dredd for IDW, Bloodshot for Valiant Comics, and X for Dark Horse, and has previously written for the Punisher, Birds of Prey, Godzilla, Cable, The Immortal Iron Fist, Werewolf By Night, Black Widow, and Deadpool. Duane worked as the editor-in-chief of The Philadelphia City Paper and as an editor and writer for Men's Health, Details, and Philadelphia magazines in the past. Duane, then known as Cliff Dohower, died of tuberculosis in Wisconsin in 1957 in a prior life. The author is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.