Dead Men's Boots is a 2007 urban fantasy novel by Mike Carey. The third in his series about freelance exorcist Felix Castor, it was first published by Orbit Books.
While investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague, Felix Castor is hired to prove the innocence of a man charged with a murder which he is blaming on a serial killer executed decades earlier.
Kirkus Reviews lauded the novel as "irresistible" and an "extravaganza" with "prose [that] leaves the reader breathless." [1] Publishers Weekly praised Carey's "gift for creating a plausible alternate reality" and his "way with words", comparing him to Jim Butcher. [2] The SF Site , reviewing the audiobook, similarly compared Carey to Butcher, and noted that the story is "well leavened throughout with dry humor", emphasizing that although the novel is part three in a series, "readers can easily start the series here". [3]