"Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused. It appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can't remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she's gone. Not long after, he's dispatched to a murder scene at a house in the Hollywood Hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for "justice." Lev is about to embark on an odyssey--through Los Angeles, London, and Prague; through the labyrinthine mysteries of a grotesque ancient legend; and most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upended. And not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed."--Back cover.

Lizzie McVay realizes that someone is murdering the five prom queen condidates one by one and she may be the next on the list.

"In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening," where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice-- the one and only, Carver Canute-- set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary Kudzu House, where an old couple is purported to have been swallowed whole by a hungry vine. Their quest leads them face to face with albino panthers, Great Dane-riding girls, protective property owners, and just about every American folk-demon ever, while forcing the protagonist to finally take stock of his relationship with his father and the man's mysterious disappearance."--Amazon.com.