Secondhand Souls

A Novel

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Fisher Stevens

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host.

To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .

wonderful

funny, enjoyable, and a nice sequel. loved fisher stevens as the narrator, perfect voices and inflections. I loved wiggly charlie!!

Loved it!

This was a wonderful book thatch enjoyed very much; I wish there was a third book!

Wrapped it all up in this book.

The first book left me in a "Whaaaa?" This book wrapped it up well. some of the ghosts stories I just fast forwarded through. overall, love the voices. The voices make this corny book really fantastic!

Laugh out loud every paragraph!

The "author guy" Christopher Moore has done it again. Here is another fresh and funny tale set in the beloved city by the bay. This sequel to A Dirty Job is every bit as hilarious as the original. Some of the characters have appeared in even more of Moore's novels. The reader, Fisher Stevens gives an incredible performance with his range of voices and accents. He should be the only voice for future Moore novels.

Loved it!

I've listened to the first book(A Dirty Job) and bought the sequel right after. The second book is where the writer stops caring about making sense or tidying up the story and just go where the story takes you. It's not easy to expect where the story would take you, and the writer's same sense of humor appear more on this book. Although this book is not at all scary, can be a bit spooky to those who believe in ghosts. WIth so many characters with different age, sex, humaness, the narrator does a great job conveying each person's uniqueness.