White Trash Zombie Unchained

Rowland’s inventive sixth White Trash Zombie novel (after 2015’s White Trash Zombie Gone Wild) is just as clever, lively, and gleefully gory as its predecessors. Angel Crawford, a Louisiana zombie, morgue tech, former junkie, and all around tough chick, is starting to feel like herself again after having to be regrown due to a horrific accident that left her in a pile of rotting body parts. Then a local hunter turns into a mindless shambler, and the ailment seems to be spreading at a rapid rate. Angel may have to rely on the one person she hates the most for cure: the brilliant, and evil, Dr. Kristi Charish. Angel hopes that the Tribe (the group that keeps zombies safe) and Dr. Ariston Nikas can help find a solution before the conscious zombies lose their minds. Wrangling a few zombie alligators while stopping a runaway plague sure as heck won’t get her down. Readers who come for the slightly tongue-in-cheek zombie fun will stay for Angel’s generous spirit and sincere relationships with her family and friends, which give the story its big beating heart. Agent: Matt Bialer, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (Sept.)