The Whispering Dead

Gravekeeper, Book 1

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

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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Great Book

I love the story and the characters. I am hoping for a series on these characters.

It was ok

This isn't a great book, it's just ok. I found it to be sort of lacking in real character development, kind of just throws you into it ithout the context of country or area within a country. It just felt rushed and lacked grounding.

I'm surprised by the high ratings. I think I thought it had 1000s of high ratings but looked again and there was only about 100. So it might have been some kind of false lots of friends of the author kind of pump up the ratings.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of this was written by AI. That's the feeling I got, which would be fine if it was better.

Soooo good!

I ate this book up, read it in one day. Such a cozy horror read! Easy read and descriptive and I was fully engaged. I’m fexcited to read the rest of the gravekeeper series.

This was awesome!

I love the premise of "seeing". A great story to listen to while at work!

Just ok

It wasn’t bad but I enjoyed some of her other novels more. Narrator was good.