The Voodoo Killings

This was just a delightful read. Kincaid is a very archetypal urban fantasy protagonist - she's snarky and funny, barely keeping her life together in most areas, but with just enough badassery that she gets through the day. Beyond just being that archetype, though, Charish fills her with enough sass and edge that she's a lot of fun to follow on her adventure.

Beyond that, the world that Charish builds here has a lot of verisimilitude. It's a world filled with zombies and ghosts, but their motivations for being there (and for other people wanting to keep them around) ring very true - dead grunge rockers being summoned to give people guitar lessons, voodoo practitioners being asked to raise zombies to settle contract disputes - it's at the same time both very mundane and fantastical, and the tension between the two really makes the story sing.