Stupidest Angel, The LP

Now in a special holiday edition, the hilariously deranged tale of Santa, fruitcakes, angels, and Kung fu. . . .

“Christopher Moore writes novels that are not only hilarious, but fun to read as well. He is an author at the top of his craft.--Nicholas Sparks

Moore sets the pandemonium in motion when an evil developer playing Santa takes a fatal shovel to the neck, leaving his ex-wife and a lonely DEA pilot scrambling to hide the body. The story summons the Archangel Raziel to grant a boy's holiday prayer, only for the dim-witted seraph to resurrect every corpse in the local cemetery.

The seaside village soon finds its Christmas Eve chapel party besieged by shambling, brain-hungry undead demanding Swedish flat-pack furniture. The townspeople discover unlikely heroes in a pot-smoking local constable and his broadsword-wielding former B-movie wife.

'Twas the night before Christmas . . . and all through Pine Cove, Florida, the creatures were stirring in this wonderfully funny tale that gives the spirit of Christmas a whole new meaning.

• Dark Comedy: Roberto the fruit bat wears Ray-Ban sunglasses and rides shotgun.
• Small Town Setting: Pine Cove's seaside community contends with gale-force coastal weather, a blunt saloon keeper brandishing a miniature baseball bat, and dark secrets unearthed from the town cemetery.
• Quirky Characters: A neurotic biologist attempts to cure his broken heart through rodent psychology.
• Also by This Author: Lamb, Dirty Job and Secondhand Souls.

Christopher Moore is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels, Noir, Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, Fool, and Lamb. He lives in San Francisco, California.