


Braineater Jones won’t get out alive, but if he plays his cards right, he might manage to salvage the last scraps of his humanity.

Death couldn’t stop him, but if the liquor dries up, the entire city will be plunged into an orgy of cannibalism.Ĭracking this case is a tall order. From his Mason jar, the cantankerous Old Man rules the only speakeasy in the city that caters to the postmortem crowd.Īs the booze, blood, and clues coagulate, Jones gets closer to discovering the identity of his killer and the secrets behind the city’s stranglehold on liquid spirits. Somebody plugged him and dumped his corpse in a swimming pool. The undead private eye everybody calls Braineater Jones has an axe to grind. Unfortunately, finding liquor during Prohibition is costly and dangerous. Back in 2013, author Stephen Kozeniewski took readers on a zombie noir trip to remember with Braineater Jones, and in his new novel, The Hematophages, Kozeniewski plunges readers into an alien fleshworld teeming with unthinkable threats. See all books authored by Stephen Kozeniewski, including Every Kingdom Divided, and Braineater Jones, and more on . Braineater Jones Stephen Kozeniewski 3.77 468 ratings146 reviews No memory. Like all walking corpses, he discovers that only a stiff drink can soothe his cravings. With a smart-aleck severed head as a partner, Jones descends into the undead ghetto to solve his own murder.īut Jones’s investigation is complicated by his crippling addiction to human flesh. Braineater Jones wakes up face down in a swimming pool with no memory of his former life, how he died, or why he’s now a zombie.
