Overview

Philip Lew is an ex-cop who just wanted to get away from Earth and the freak show it has become. Looking back, perhaps Hades was not the ideal spot for him to settle down. An artificial satellite owned and inhabited by The Darker Society--an organization formed to guard the rights of society's latest minority? If trendy vampires, werewolves, and such were too much to take on Earth, imagine them in close quarters. But, even in a paradise like Hades, all is not rosy. Someone, alive or undead, has decided to ...
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Darkers

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Philip Lew is an ex-cop who just wanted to get away from Earth and the freak show it has become. Looking back, perhaps Hades was not the ideal spot for him to settle down. An artificial satellite owned and inhabited by The Darker Society--an organization formed to guard the rights of society's latest minority? If trendy vampires, werewolves, and such were too much to take on Earth, imagine them in close quarters. But, even in a paradise like Hades, all is not rosy. Someone, alive or undead, has decided to decrease the population, one citizen at a time. And these dead are NOT coming back to life. Or death. They're just not coming back. So, what fool decided Philip was the man to solve the crimes?
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Editorial Reviews

John E. Stith
Inventive, unusual, and funny.
Phyllis Gotlieb
Lisa DuMond's novel DARKERS is a lively and exciting detective story set in a fascinatingly detailed satellite colony of vampires and zombies where life is still amazingly valuable to the undead.
Garrett Peck
eBooks have become a haven for younger authors who have the audacity to write outside the traditional boundaries of genre. Lisa DuMond's DARKERS is a prime example. Though it's being marketed as horror/dark fantasy, which is appropriate given that it features vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies, it also uses the conventions of many other genres. The setting, a satellite station known as Hades, is pure science fiction.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940000061343
  • Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory
  • Publication date: 8/1/2001
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 716 KB

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2004

    A Fun Read for Crime Fiction Fans, Too

    Philly is kind of a typical P.I. type (security consultant) who has retreated to Hades, far, far from mother Earth. At the request of his obsessed neighbor, Percy, he tries to find out who is turning some of the Hades residents into zombies. Against their will. Because plenty are willing to become zombies¿after they¿re dead. Payment is rendered in advance and gives them a comfortable stretch before their not-so-permanent departure from this plane. But when the zombie gangs get you, you don¿t get paid and you get taken well before you¿re ready to go. When Percy gets arrested for breaking into computer files, Philly starts to dig deeper in the case, revealing the darkest side of this darker society. Author Lisa DuMond has hit the hardboiled nerve peg on, a talent for tone that she combines with her science fiction and horror inclinations, resulting in a novel that¿s both fun and a real whodunit puzzle book. A sci fi horror mystery with overtones of romance, Darkers crosses all the genres but remains accessible to fans of each category of fiction. This is an entertaining story that carefully details a really weird type of place, as a sort of social satire. But the story and its crime tale twists are never left behind, since DuMond vigilantly maintains her focus on the plot¿as a mystery author most properly should.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2000

    A great find for sci-fi and mystery lovers alike!

    Don't like sci-fi written by women? DARKERS is a must read guaranteed to change your mind. A campy tale of mayhem, mystery, and the truly bizarre, vividly told from the perspective of the unlikely hero. With frequent tongue-in-cheek asides from the usually horny, typically witty, but brutally honest and opinionated Phil, the reader gets swept up in the action and taken along for the ride.

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