The Dark Side of the Road

In The Dark Side of the Road Simon R. Green introduces us to Ishmael Jones.  Ishmael works for a mysterious organization tasked with cleaning up problems caused by aliens and other outsiders.  As the book opens Ishmael’s boss, the Colonel, has summoned him to a house in the country.  Ishmael arrives in the teeth of a blizzard to find that the Colonel has vanished.  Ishmael investigates the growing mystery as bodies begin to pile up around him and the weather keeps everyone trapped.

The book is both readable and reasonably interesting.  It does cover territory that has been handled better by other authors but is worth a look at if you like a classic cut off estate mystery with supernatural or perhaps extraterrestrial trappings.