Hitman Kieran Russe thinks he's the deadliest man in town. But he's about to find out that the crime family he works for is full of vampires, and they're not afraid to get their blood in-house. "All the Meaner Things" is a noir vampire novel that explores the black, white, and red world of undead mobsters in a Prohibition-era California city. Kieran is a World War I veteran who finds himself embroiled in a new conflict between a group of vampire hunters, the crime family, a budding romance, and his own fractured mind. It's a debut novel that moves as swiftly and dangerously as a switchblade in the night, slicing through smoky speakeasies, dark mine tunnels, and graveyards teeming with bloodsucking wise guys.  "All the Meaner Things" is ideal for readers of hard-boiled and horror, specifically Sylvia Moreno-Garcia's "Certain Dead Things" and Laird Barron's Isaiah Coleridge series. If Raymond Chandler were to tell an Anne Rice story, it might go something like this.