Moot

When a beautiful heiress hires Dudley Pasco to find her missing sister, he figures he’s got everything he needs to solve the case. He’s got the fedora, he’s got the gun, he’s got the patter.

The only thing he doesn’t have is a pulse.

Pasco is a moot, his body having decided that death is only a state of mind. Being moot isn’t always a problem for him, but when the trail leads to Greytown, Pasco is forced to face the horror of his own non-existence.

A mixture of hard-boiled detective noir and zombie horror, Moot is proof that dead men do tell tales.

Corey Redekop’s debut novel, Shelf Monkey, won Best Popular Fiction Novel at the 2008 Independent Book Publishers Awards and was declared one of the “Top 40 Novels of the Decade” by CBC Canada Reads. His follow-up novel, Husk, was shortlisted for the 2013 ReLit Award and chosen as one of the top books of the year by the editors of Amazon.ca. It was later released in a French translation (as Mister Funk) and as an audiobook.

His short stories have appeared in anthologies such as The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir, Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen, and Those Who Make Us: Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories.

“No one watching such things in Canada doubts his voice or his vision: Corey Redekop has emerged as one of the writers to pay attention to over the coming few years.” — January Magazine

Previously published in The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir, "Moot" is now available as an eBook from Husky Monkey Publications.