Max Gladstone.
Three Parts Dead.
Tor. 2012
A GOD HAS DIED, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in
the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao,
to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart.
Her client is Kos, recently deceased Fire God of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead God, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith.
But when the duo discovers that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb’s courts—and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb’s slim hope of survival.