If you’ve read Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, you’ll really enjoy the debut novel from Trent Jamieson. This is the sort of book you just can’t wait to be made into a TV series; where you WANT to have the weekly suspense as the novel is just over too quickly.

Trent Jamieson has some wonderfully descriptive moments, which I could intimately relate to
“Someone has jimmied open my skull and poured highly flammable liquid migraine directly into my brainpan” to describe a hangover... I don’t think I’ve ever read a more accurate description, and throughout the story his writing style means you’ve got a movie going on in your head, rather than merely reading text on a page.

There are moments of absolute heartache, I cried my eyes out, but they’re not dwelled on; Steve didn’t have time to deal with the heartache, the world was collapsing around him, so we don’t have time to dwell on it either. I had never really noticed how much an author really does control my pain and suffering before!

Through all of this world of death and destruction, there is this sense of realism, you’ve got small county hospitals who’re just accepting of the fact that people will occasionally get up and walk, and someone will appear to deal with it; which is so like any small town institution I’ve ever dealt with “panic and drama is for the big city folk; we don’t have time for that sort of carrying on around there, there’s too much else to do”

Death Most Definite isn’t ground breaking, it’s not particularly gripping, but it IS a good solid, enjoyable read, which delivers death and zombies in a very original manner. I hope this series continues for many more books, as I can just see so much potential in the characters and the world the Mr Jamieson has created (and I really hope that we get to see this as a decent budget TV series!)