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There are more people dead than living in the Northern California city of Colma, a community centered almost entirely around cemeteries. (Where else are the people of nearby San Francisco going to bury their dead?) Rookie cop Mike Mercer has recently taken over a graveyard beat after his predecessor died, and just like the man he replaced, he soon starts hearing and seeing things he shouldn’t be. And by ‘things’ I naturally mean ‘dead people.’ Paging Haley Joel Osment!
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It was the selection of San Francisco's One City One Book, so when my brother gave me a copy I thought I'd give it a shot. Very disappointed. Character development that crawled along about characters it was hard to care about. I was expecting something a little more in the genre fiction department, but this had the weakness of a writer who mistakenly thinks they're above genre fiction.
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Imaginative, but disappointing.
Aug 19, 2009
Sharon
marked it as b-list
Feb 28, 2012
Laurie
marked it as to-read
