Some mysteries you don't solve.
You survive!
Thornton Thacker had never met a girl like Caroline Greer. It was love at first sight, and trouble thereafter.
Thacker is no stranger to trouble. He's a trench coat-wearing teenage detective living in a city of shadows and sirens - a concrete jungle with more secrets than streetlamps - and he's made a habit of chasing the things that bite back.
A missing Egyptian mummy, cryptic hieroglyphs, and a curse older than the concept of bad decisions. With his whip-smart sister and two best friends in tow, Thacker follows the trail from shadowy museum galleries to moonlit rooftops.
What they find isn't just ancient - it's angry.
And Caroline? She's caught in the crosshairs of deadly supernatural forces.
Welcome to the Mean City!
Don't mind the body count!