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The Whispering Dead

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Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.

And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering.

The cemetery is alive with faint, spectral shapes, led by a woman who died before her time...and Keira, the only person who can see her, has become her new target. Determined to help put the ghost to rest, Keira digs into the spirit's past life with the help of unlikely new friends, and discovers a history of deception, ill-fated love, and murder.

But the past is not as simple as it seems, and Keira's time is running out. Tangled in a dangerous web, she has to find a way to free the spirit...even if it means offering her own life in return.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 21, 2020
      Coates (Silence in the Shadows) kicks off her Gravekeeper series with this atmospheric, open-ended thriller whose heroine struggles with her mystery-shrouded past. Keira awakens in a rainy wood, with no memory of how she got there and no explanation for why she’s being hunted. Seeking refuge in the nearby town of Blighty, she is taken in by a kindly pastor whose house abuts a graveyard. Almost immediately, Keira sees a specter emerge from the cemetery: it’s Emma Carthage, who was murdered by a descendant of the town’s founder in the 1980s and whose ghost is visible only to Keira. As Keira investigates Emma’s murder, she draws in some new friends and allies—but also incites the ire of a slew of new enemies. Coates laces her macabre tale with the requisite gothic flourishes, but the mysteries they darken dissipate easily with a minimum of drama. In contrast, Keira’s identity and the source of her unusual talents are enigmas that remain to be solved in future installments, creating an open-ended feeling that will frustrate some readers. Fans of eerie ghost stories will be hooked by the premise, but many will long for a more substantial execution.

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