Undead and Unemployed

The book starts off with police interviewing a cab driver who saw a tall woman face down some vampire who was going to feed on someone he had beaten up.

The girl is Betsy, aka Elizabeth Taylor. She's been undead for three months, and is in need of a job. She's also sort of a Queen of the Vampires. Detective Nick Berry, from the first book, is also in this one, although as a very minor character.

She gets a job working in a Macy's shoe department. (She REALLY loves shoes!)

Jessica is a friend of hers. Tina and Sinclair are two other vampires Betsy knows. Tina tells Betsy that a lot of vampires are getting staked lately, and she expects Betsy to do something about it. Later Tina herself is attacked.

It's a group of thugs led by a priest that shows up at Jessica's house to take on the “vicious” vampire Betsy.

There's a hilarious part where one of the would-be vampire killers, a woman, asks Betsy if the female vampire she actually tried to kill was seeing anyone, now that Betsy and the others had explained that some vampires were not really evil.

Then one of the teenage vampire killers develops a crush on Betsy and comes to her workplace. She's been showing shoes to a customer. He asks “Are you going to eat your customer?” This whole book is filled with funny lines like that.

There's another killing, even though the group that had been killing vampires had quit doing that. Betsy finds out who has been behind the killings, but shortly thereafter she's killed herself.

Again.

And, again, she comes back from the dead, exercises her vengeance, and goes shopping.

This is a really great book, tremendously funny at parts, yet still with a good plot and action. Definitely worth reading.


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