Friday, October 31, 2025

Book of the Week: The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates

Here's an Appropriate book of the week because it's Halloween!  It's a fictional paranormal book from Australian author Darcy Coates called  "The Twisted Dead." It's book three in the Gravekeeper series. I previously read book one, so I need to find book two in the series. This is a GREAT BOOK!! - I finished it in a week... I took it everywhere, including dog walks! 

The lead character, Kiera, has a gift of seeing and communicating with earthbound ghosts. She lost her memory so only has a slight awareness of who she was, but made a new life tending a cemetery, cleaning gravesites, helping ghosts cross over. 

In this book, she tries to help a man rid himself of all ghosts of his ancestors who feed on him and weaken him. When she also tries to help comfort a friend whose classmate was murdered, she uncovers a dark secret tied to her past.  So, there's lots going on here. 5 of 5 stars

ABOUT THE BOOK- Keira must decide if she should use her ability to contact ghosts to help the man who once tried to kill her.

Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped in history that is equal parts complicated and bloody—and at its center is the man who once tried to kill her, now begging for her help.

Dane Crispin believes his home is haunted—and that the unquiet dead clawing through the ancient house are after him. Unnerved but intrigued, Keira opens her second sight and discovers he's right: resentful specters cling to Dane…and if she can't find a way to stop them, threaten to consume everything in their path.

There's something dark happening in the world beyond most peoples' vision, and if Keira isn't able to sever the ties between the living and the dead, the chained spirits may not be the only things twisted beyond saving.

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