One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011 Cas Lowood has inherited and unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual. What he finds is a ghost like he's never faced before.
