In a departure from his excellent Joe Pitt vampire novels, this stand-alone thriller packs a punch with dark humor, gritty violence and bizarre, foul-mouthed characters. Former LA school teacher Web Goodhue was traumatized by a terrible incident with a bus full of his young students. Now, he's without a job and mooching off his best friend while he tries not to deal with his horrific past. When an acquaintance offers Web a job as a crime scene cleaner, he figures why not, what's the worst that could happen? He soon finds out when he gets into tons more drama and death than he ever imagined -- but he finds he loves the work and doesn't want to give it up! I just finished reading this book and could not put it down, even with all the really rank (yet realistic) language that's used by all the characters involved. For fans of hard-boiled crime fiction, this is a must-read.