Description

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USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering...

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.

Horror Novels Also By Darcy Coates:

The Haunting of Ashburn House

Carrow Haunt

Craven Manor

The House Next Door

Voices in the Snow

About the Author

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Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of Hunted, The Haunting of Ashburn House, Craven Manor, and more than a dozen horror and suspense titles. She lives on the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cats, and a garden full of herbs and vegetables. Darcy loves forests, especially old-growth forests where the trees dwarf anyone who steps between them. Wherever she lives, she tries to have a mountain range close by.

Praise For…

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“Darcy Coates will have you gripping the covers with the immediately entertaining The Whispering Dead.” — BookPage

"Readers will enjoy this quick-paced atmospheric thriller." — Booklist

"Darcy Coates (The Haunting of Ashburn House; Craven Manor) adeptly sets up a quick-paced plot...There's nothing like a good ghost story to curl up with on a dark and stormy night" — Shelf Awareness

“Fans of eerie ghost stories will be hooked” — Publishers Weekly