"The Wild Dead is a tightly plotted mind-thrill . . . This is the feminist dystopian mystery series you didn't know you needed." -- Meg Elison, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Road to Nowhere series

Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Bannerless

A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their ancestors did. They strictly ration and manage resources, including the ability to have children. Enid of Haven is an investigator, who with her new partner, Teeg, is called on to mediate a dispute over an old building in a far-flung settlement at the edge of Coast Road territory. The investigators' decision seems straightforward -- and then the body of a young woman turns up in the nearby marshland. Almost more shocking than that, she's not from the Coast Road, but from one of the outsider camps belonging to the nomads and wild folk who live outside the Coast Road communities. Now one of them is dead, and Enid wants to find out who killed her, even as Teeg argues that the murder isn't their problem. In a dystopian future of isolated communities, can our moral sense survive the worst hard times?

"An intriguing mystery made compelling by its post-apocalyptic setting . . . Another great read from Vaughn." -- S. M. Stirling, New York Times best-selling author of The Sky-Blue Wolves and Dies the Fire

A Mariner Original

A John Joseph Adams Book

Author: Carrie Vaughn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 07/17/2018
Series: Bannerless Saga
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780544947313


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/28/2018
Library Journal 06/15/2018 pg. 59
Booklist 07/01/2018 pg. 23

About the Author
CARRIE VAUGHN is the best-selling author of the Kitty Norville series, as well as the superhero novels Dreams of the Golden Age and After the Golden Age, the young adult novels Voices of Dragons and Steel, the fantasy novel Discord's Apple, and the post-apocalyptic mystery Bannerless.