title: Boroughs of the Dead: New York City Ghost Stories
author:  Andrea Janes 
description: Andrea Janes lives in Brooklyn, New York, across the street from a cemetery and a high-voltage ConEd substation and hopes that one day, maybe during a thunderstorm, this combination will result in some really cool zombie action. This is her first book.
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  At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City houses both the living and
  the dead. And when it comes to crimes of an otherworldly nature, it falls to
  the psychics and spirits of the city’s finest secret agency—The Ghost
  Precinct—to serve justice beyond the earthly realm . . .
  
  
  The ethereal denizens of New York owe a great debt to Eve Whitby, the young
  talented medium who leads the all-female Spiritualists in the police
  department’s Ghost Precinct. Without her team’s efforts on behalf of the
  incorporeal, many souls would have been lost or damned by both human and
  inhuman means.
  
  
  But now Eve faces an enemy determined to exorcise the city’s ghostly
  population once and for all. Albert Prenze is supposed to be dead. Instead he
  is very much alive, having assumed the identity of his twin brother Alfred,
  and taken control of the family’s dubiously made fortune. With unlimited
  wealth at his disposal, 