Hardcover, 298 pages

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleanerbut the bloody messes don’t bother her, not when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. The killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last words: “bat eater.”

These days nobody can reach Cora: not her aunt, who wants her to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival; not her weird colleagues; andespeciallynot the slack-jawed shadow lurking around her door frame. After all, it can’t be realcan it? After a series of unexplained killings in Chinatown, Cora believes someone might be targeting East Asian women, and somethingmight be targeting Cora herself.