# Alive in Necropolis

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- Book: [Alive in Necropolis](https://www.bookquiver.com/doug-dorst/alive-in-necropolis) ([Alive in Necropolis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/doug-dorst/alive-in-necropolis.md))
- Authors: [Doug Dorst](https://www.bookquiver.com/doug-dorst)
- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9448-382-0
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2009-06-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A " dark and funny debut"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, the " cemetery city" serving...