City of the Lost

Los Angeles has always been a city where the desperate chase impossible things, and Joe Sunday fits right in. A small-time criminal working for the wrong people, Joe finds himself on the wrong end of a bullet and wakes up dead. Well, mostly dead. Now a zombie with a ticking clock, his only path forward runs through a legendary talisman rumored to grant immortality, and every undead gangster and supernatural power player in the city wants it just as badly. Stephen Blackmoore's urban fantasy drops readers into a noir-soaked underworld where the criminal hierarchy and the supernatural overlap in brutal, darkly comic ways.

The full-cast dramatized format transforms the story into something closer to a radio thriller than a traditional audiobook. The ensemble, including Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Colleen Delany, and Terence Aselford, brings distinct voices to a sprawling cast of criminals and monsters. At under five and a half hours, the production moves fast, leaning into the pulpy momentum that makes this grimy corner of Los Angeles feel genuinely alive.