Solving a murder is hard. Solving it after the end of the world is even harder. For Detective Graysmith, he can't let a young girl's killer off the hook even during the apocalypse. Dreams That Mean Death is a hard-boiled detective novel set during the unraveling of all natural laws. Witness: a deranged refrigerator, fish societies, shadowy sausage people, and more as the apocalypse comes in different ways for all of us.