The Next - Jimmy Miles, Bk 2 Author:Dan Vining Jimmy Miles can't sleep. Perfect for a private investigator. The night belongs to him-and to Lucy, the woman he's trailing. Her link to Jimmy lies with a strange group called the Sailors. Jimmy knows about them. That's what keeps him up. So do the murders, and the lies about Lucy and his own past...which are far less frightening than... more » the truth.
This second book in the series revolves around the fact that Jimmy Miles is dead -- a sort of undead Spenser. He walks among the beautiful people of Los Angeles, seemingly one of them, with only the occasional stranger picking up his true nature. He is in fact part of a much larger group, the Sailors, people who have died but are "here, in the flesh... with us... this second version of yourself." Not all Sailors are good guys, of course; some of them, the Walkers, are downright sinister.« less