<p>Some mysteries you don't solve.</p><p>You survive!</p><p></p><p>Thornton Thacker had never met a girl like Caroline Greer. It was love at first sight and trouble thereafter.</p><p>Thacker is no stranger to trouble. He's a trench coat-wearing teenage detective living in a city of shadows and sirens - a concrete jungle with more secrets than streetlamps - and he's made a habit of chasing the things that bite back.</p><p>A missing Egyptian mummy cryptic hieroglyphs and a curse older than the concept of bad decisions. With his whip-smart sister and two best friends in tow Thacker follows the trail from shadowy museum galleries to moonlit rooftops.</p><p>What they find isn't just ancient - it's angry.</p><p>And Caroline? She's caught in the crosshairs of deadly supernatural forces.</p><p></p><p>Welcome to the Mean City!</p><p>Don't mind the body count!</p>