Death's Door

Horror fans who don't mind prose riddled with puns, old movie references and plot-stopping lectures on everything from ancient Egyptian spiritual beliefs to geographic profiling will welcome the pseudonymous Michael Slade's Death's Door, an over-the-top near-parody of psychothrillers, in which RCMP Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq gets on the trail of a missing mummy and a multitude of mayhem-making murderers. ""Slade"" is now the father-daughter team of Jay and Rebecca Clarke.