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The legendary Hesselthorn Puzzle Box has disappeared.Said to contain a powerful djinn that can grant eternal life to whoever opens it, every demon mobster and werewolf gang member in the city will do whatever it takes to get their claws on the box first.As one of the most valuable objects insured by Crimson Seal, it's Tim Lovecraft's job to find the box before the criminals do. Tim is convinced that the theft is an inside job, but as his investigation progresses, he discovers that nothing - including Crimson Seal itself - is what it appears to be.The uproariously creepy fourth book in the "Demonic Indemnity" series finds our reluctant hero confronting a familiar source of black-hooded evil, trying to date again after a bad breakup, and playing host to a variety of freeloading entities, some of whom leave ectoplasm on the furniture.

As the first human in 3,200 years to work in the Special Investigations Unit of Crimson Seal Insurance, Tim Lovecraft knows his days of processing run-of-the-mill claims for werewolf maulings and poltergeist home invasions are over.SIU is where they investigate the toughest and scariest claims, like supernatural identity theft (aka demonic possession), exsanguinations (total and partial), zombification, and death or injury by cursed artefacts of all kinds.Despite the new job, Tim's life is not easy. His new boss is a literal demon with no regard for the company's scent-free workplace policy. His brother is a lazy, unemployed vampire who won't move his coffin out of Tim's apartment. His coworkers are a motely collection of werewolves and ghouls. And his mother won't stop trying to set him up with psychics from her chain of spiritualist day spas.Tim badly wants to make a good impression by solving his first case. When he gets caught between a powerful cult trying to resurrect an ancient entity and a demon mob boss who wants him dead, Tim knows he is seriously increasing his odds of statistically expected mortality.Demonic Indemnity is another hilariously horrific tale from Craig McLay, author of award-winning international bestsellers Village Books, The Donnelly Tontine and other books you should read immediately.

A shapeshifting demon is bumping off Crimson Seal's biggest clients in gruesomely unpleasant ways. All of them seem to have links to the biggest anti-spectral organization in the city, which means they had politically powerful human friends and even more supernaturally powerful enemies.Tim Lovecraft knows this isn't going to be like any other case he's been assigned to since joining the Special Investigations Unit. Everyone is going to be watching his progress very closely - and certain unspeakable entities don't want him to solve it.In most other respects, Tim's life is the same. His boss is still a demon with two heads and no regard for the company's scent-free workplace policy. His bloodsucking vampire brother, Keef, still hasn't moved out of his apartment. His semi-paranoid friend Stake is still working in security but is now running his own company like a private army prepping for the undead apocalypse. His interfering mother is still trying to set him up with psychics. And his police sergeant girlfriend Tabitha is too busy working her own cases to return his calls.Tim has also been assigned a trainee, a half-vampire who hates humans with a passion that borders on murderous. As the bodies and insurable losses pile up, Tim isn't sure who to trust or where to turn for answers.Like Demonic Indemnity, Infernal Negligence is just another hilariously evil day in the supernatural insurance business.

Tim Lovecraft has been sent to the small town of Abomination to investigate an agent who has mysteriously disappeared after submitting a large number of highly suspicious claims.First on the list is a mauling at a werewolf safari park and petting zoo that is staffed entirely by ex-cons and run by a man with a checkered past and a raging Narlune addiction. Next is a total (and supposedly accidental) exsanguination at a craft blood brewery run by twin satyrs who are not as diligent as they should be about how they source their primary ingredient. And last but not least is a possessed vehicle rampage at a drive in/used car lot/hot tub emporium run by a man who isn't really a vampire but likes to play one on TV.As he begins to look more closely into each, Tim starts to get the impression that things in Abomination are not remotely what they seem. Menaced by demon gangsters and a sex-and-musical-theatre-crazed succubus, Tim quickly realizes that he may have made a mistake in leaving the big city - and sinister municipal forces are determined to make sure that he never returns.The third book in the Demonic Indemnity series is another madcap reminder that in supernatural insurance, everyone can hear you scream because it's part of the job.