"Dead Water shows these universals through the uniqueness of its setting and characters, adding another award-quality book to Ms. Cleeves’s body of work."
“In spite of the bad taste left by the last one-third of the book, the depth and the magnetism and the humor of Eric Charles May’s truly unforgettable characters makes this
Black world troubleshooter Blaine McCracken is the Grim Reaper in human form. When he emerges from the shadows to reap a harvest among the corrupt and the wicked, the bodies will fall.