When Sally Blue was six, a gunshot woke her and subsequently ripped her world apart. Jolted awake, Sally ran to her parents’ bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her father myteriously missing and her mother slumped against the headboard, her nightgown shredded by a shotgun blast. Climbing on the bed, Sally cradled her mother’s head, mindless of the blood and stench of death. Yet from somewhere deep within the lifeless body, Sally heard the voice of her mother warning her: “Run, Sally! Run!”
Twenty-five years later, Sally has finally stopped running. She has found a modicum of peace as a mortician’s beautician, able to take solace from the voices of the dead that trailed her for years wherever she went. Yet a grisly murder reawakens her ‘gift’, forcing Sally to turn to Jersey Castle, homicide detective by day, punk rock drummer by night, and the last person Sally might expect to help her. But what Sally doesn’t know is that someone has been hunting for her all this time. They voices of the dead are all around her, and if she is unable to silence them the next voice to join the cacophony of death will be Sally's own.
Distribution statement from back jacket flap.
Praise for SPEAK THE DEAD
"Speak The Dead is a powerful new addition to the thriller market. Grant McKenzie’s writing is sharp, insightful and drips with suspense, and Sally is the believable protagonist one finds in a Harlan Coben novel. Hang on. This one rockets from the start and the pages just keep turning to the thrilling end.”
—Robert Dugoni, #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave
"Part murder mystery, part supernatural thriller, SPEAK THE DEAD starts fast right out of the gate and keeps gaining momentum, the kind of book that grows in interest and what's truly at stake as the story unfolds.”
—Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Look Twice and One Mile Under
Praise for the novels of Grant McKenzie:
SWITCH
"A terrific little-guy-in-big-trouble thriller moving at warp speed - with the emphasis on warp."
—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
"Grant McKenzie really knows how to make a story move."
—Linwood Barclay, bestselling author of No Time For Goodbye
"Think Harlan Coben on speed with a heart breaking compassion that will literally have you biting your nails."
—Ken Bruen, bestselling author of the Jack Taylor series
'Switch crackles with suspense and is as tense as a switchblade opening in a dark alley.'
—Rick Mofina, international bestselling author of Six Seconds
"Switch is not merely good, it's damned good."
—David Hagberg, best-selling author of Joshua's Hammer
K.A.R.M.A.
"Grant McKenzie is a terrific novelist." —Tess Gerritsen
“K.A.R.M.A. is one fine piece of work”
—Andrew Vachss, New York Times bestselling author
"I was gripped from page one." —Stephen Leather
