The word kitty has lost its sting and Charlie is freed of his squirrely prison. There was more time with a lot of different people and less with the hellhounds which were hilarious. This one had a plot a bit less coherent and singular. That said, it was an entertaining book, even if it wasn’t quite up to the quality of the first one. Also, one of the bridge ghosts’ stories was interesting, but another was just a chance to show off his inside baseball lingo. The first book is way less pithy and frenetic. Show More anticipation of receiving this book in an ARC program, so the distinction is clear. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus and Lily, the former Goth girl. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall 'meat puppet' waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else.

Someone-or something-is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can't be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host.

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing-and you know that can’t be good-in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore