Zoo City
Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit - and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Angry Robot
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9780857662163
- Genre
- FantasyCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Urban fantasy magicMissing persons investigationGuilt and redemptionAnimal familiarsCrime and corruption
Awards
- Arthur C. Clarke AwardWon(2011)
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelShortlisted(2011)
- World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted(2011)
- BSFA Award for Best NovelShortlisted(2010)
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