Graveyard Shift
A Novella
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- ¥1,200
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The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.
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Rio's satisfying follow-up to If We Were Villains features five night-shift workers who regularly meet up for a midnight smoke break at a church cemetery. The group includes Edie, editor-in-chief of her college newspaper; Theo, the gossipy general manager of the university watering hole; Tamar, who holds down a nearby hotel reception desk; Tuck, the church's caretaker; and Hannah, a mechanic who pulls late-night rideshare shifts. The crew's routine is disrupted one night when they discover a freshly dug hole in the graveyard, where Tuck insists no one new has been buried in over a century. A few minutes later, Edie and Tuck notice a stranger dumping a pile of rat corpses into the hole. On closer inspection, the rats appear to be growing strange spores on their snouts. Edie and Tuck inform the rest of the group, who speculate that the rats may be connected to covert scientific research being done at the university, which Edie sets out to investigate. Rio stuffs a plethora of surprises into her concise narrative without skimping on character development. This packs a punch.
