Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst

In the city of Colma, California—a place where the dead outnumber the living—a rookie cop named Mike Mercer is assigned to patrol the streets that wind through vast cemeteries and shadowed mausoleums. What begins as routine night duty soon turns into something far stranger. Mercer starts encountering figures who may not belong entirely to the world of the living, and the boundaries between past and present begin to blur.

As Mercer struggles with loneliness, moral uncertainty, and his own ghosts, the dead whisper their stories—tales of regret, love, and unfinished lives. Haunted by both memory and the supernatural, he must find a way to protect the living and bring peace to the departed.

Darkly funny and deeply human, Alive in Necropolis is a genre-bending tale of redemption, mortality, and the thin line between reality and the afterlife—a modern gothic infused with compassion and grit.