Saint Death's Herald
The sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death's Daughter
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Published:22nd Apr '25
Should be back in stock very soon

Much-anticipated follow-up to the whimsical, joyous, zombie-packed, award-winning Saint Death's Daughter
Lanie Stones lives to love and serve Saint Death. And damn it duodecifold, Saint Death needs her—first and foremost for her ability to lay the unrestful dead to rest. Unfortunately for Lanie, the most restless of these “unrestful dead" happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones...
* WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNING SERIES * 'Warm, crackling, snapping from time to time to keep you on your toes' - REACTOR 'Effervescent, glittering, as fizzy and breathtaking as a shower of shooting stars' - EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY 'Cooney's prose is top-notch' - DISTORTED VISIONS 'Cooney nails the ending' - SKIFFY AND FANTY SHOW LANIE STONES IS THE NECROMANCER THAT DEATH HAS BEEN PRAYING FOR Heartbroken, exiled from her homeland as a traitor, Lanie Stones would rather take refuge in good books and delicate pastries than hunt a deathless abomination, but that is the duty she has chosen. The abomination in question happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones. Grandpa Rad has escaped from his prison and stolen a body, and is heading to the icy country of Skakhmat where he died, to finish the genocide he started. Fortunately for her, Lanie has her powerful death magic, including the power to sing the restless dead to their eternal slumber; and she has her new family by her side. Grandpa Rad may have finally met his maA rip-roaring, tiger-carpet-soaring, shapeshifter-lore-ing, wizard-duel-a-warring wonder... Cooney writes like a yule log on fire: warm, crackling, snapping from time to time to keep you on your toes * Reactor *
Effervescent, glittering, as fizzy and breathtaking as a shower of shooting stars * Every Book a Doorway *
Cooney's prose is top-notch, with imaginative turn-of-phrase, zest, and poetry interlaced into the world * Distorted Visions *
Cooney nails the novel's ending with positive affirmations of the series' themes of love, kith, and kin * Skiffy and Fanty Show *
An incredible book * FanFiAddict *
Highly recommended to lovers of necromancers, LGBTQ+ fantasy, and tangential footnotes * Paste *
The book has trauma, and grief, and a poignant goodbye to someone I never thought I would care about * Pixelated Geek *
Effulgent, effervescent, effusively beautiful. Every superlative I can think of and then some... A perfect joy of a book and I love it like I love the sun -- Cassandra Khaw, author of THE LIBRARY AT HELLEBORE
Bold and ambitious, brilliantly black-humoured and fantastically strange... An ode to gods, ghosts, Death and necromancers - and getting out alive. Gruesomely gorgeous -- Angela Slatter, author of THE CRIMSON ROAD
Morbidly effervescent, joyfully macabre, lucidly baroque, a gift of bright warmth beneath syrup and knives and a film of glittering ice -- Kathleen Jennings, author of HONEYEATER
Cooney makes me laugh, cry, and gasp in equal measure. Saint Death's Herald had me doing all of those. Repeatedly -- Anthony Cardno
ISBN: 9781837864492
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
Weight: 300g
432 pages
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