Dig Two Graves

Daniel Faust is back from Hell with a new face, a vendetta, and a list of people who need to die. When shape-shifting enemies strike close to home, his personal war becomes a desperate rescue mission — one that leads him, his demonic lover Caitlin, and his sharp apprentice Melanie to Springfield, a small town that feels fundamentally wrong. Businesses close at sundown. Locals follow invisible scripts. The library stocks books by authors who never existed. What begins as a hunt for two specific enemies spirals into something stranger and more unsettling, and Schaefer makes the strangeness feel genuinely earned rather than arbitrary.

Eleven books into this series, Schaefer hasn't lost the thread — if anything, the Daniel Faust novels get more confident with each entry. The prose is lean and propelled, the banter between characters carries real warmth without softening the danger, and the mystery structure here is unusually tight. Springfield unfolds like a locked-room puzzle wrapped inside an urban fantasy, rewarding readers who pay attention without punishing those who just want to watch Faust work. It's the kind of book that moves fast but leaves an impression.