Speak the Dead
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When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.
Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound.
Climbing on the bed, Sally cradled her mother's head against her tiny chest, mindless of the blood and the cloying stench of death. There was no sign of her father, and Sally was too frightened to call out, when a voice from deep within her dead mother's throat screamed: “Run, Sally! Run!"
Twenty-five years later, Sally has finally stopped running. She finds peace among the dead as a mortician's beautician, and on the night of a strange murder that reawakens a special gift within her, she actually meets an interesting man: Jersey Castle, homicide detective by day, punk rock drummer by night.
But what Sally doesn't know is that someone has been hunting for her all this time, and now that she's passed his test of blood, he will stop at nothing to bring her home again.
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Grant McKenzie. (2015). Speak the Dead. Polis Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Grant McKenzie. 2015. Speak the Dead. Polis Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Grant McKenzie, Speak the Dead. Polis Books, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Grant McKenzie. Speak the Dead. Polis Books, 2015.
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Grant McKenzie is the internationally-published author of four edge-of-your-seat thrillers, plus an ongoing mystery series set in San Francisco. His riveting thrillers The Fear In Her Eyes, Switch and K.A.R.M.A. are also available from Polis Books.
Under the pen name, M.C. Grant, he writes the Dixie Flynn series that began with Angel With A Bullet, continued with Devil With A Gun, and will return with Baby With A Bomb. His short story "Underbelly" appeared in the 'First Thrills' anthology edited by Lee Child from Tor/Forge.
As a journalist, Grant has worked in virtually every area of the newspaper business from the late-night “Dead Body Beat" at a feisty daily tabloid to senior copy/design editor at two of Canada's largest broadsheets, and Editor-in-Chief of Monday magazine. He currently resides in Victoria. - name: Grant McKenzie
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Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound.
Climbing on the bed, Sally cradled her mother's head against her tiny chest, mindless of the blood and the cloying stench of death. There was no sign of her father, and Sally was too frightened to call out, when a voice from deep within her dead mother's throat screamed: “Run, Sally! Run!"
Twenty-five years later, Sally has finally stopped running. She finds peace among the dead as a mortician's beautician, and on the night of a strange murder that reawakens a special gift within her, she actually meets an interesting man: Jersey Castle, homicide detective by day, punk rock drummer by night.
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Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound.
Climbing on the bed, Sally cradled her mother's head against her tiny chest, mindless of the blood and the cloying stench of death. There was no sign of her father, and Sally was too frightened to call out, when a voice from deep within her dead mother's throat screamed: “Run, Sally! Run!"
Twenty-five years later, Sally has finally stopped running. She finds peace among the dead as a mortician's beautician, and on the night of a strange murder that reawakens a special gift within her, she actually meets an interesting man: Jersey Castle, homicide detective by day, punk rock drummer by night.
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July 20, 2015
A bloody murder-suicide kicks off this fast-paced thriller from McKenzie (The Fear in Her Eyes). Jersey Castle, a neo–punk rock drummer, who also happens to be a Portland, Ore., homicide cop, heads the colorful cast, which includes Sally Wilson, a psychic mortuary worker who chooses to practice her art in the darkest hours of the night and offers a course in postmortem cosmetic techniques; Jersey’s stylish police partner, Amarela Valente; and Amarela’s gorgeous chum, Kameelah. In due course, the action moves to a Jonestown-like religious commune in North Dakota, where Sally is held captive. Jersey and Kameelah set out to rescue Sally, only to need rescuing themselves, which arrives in the form of a squadron of Harley-riding, leather-clad, shotgun-wielding rainbow-haired nuns. Interludes of brutal beatings administered to the hapless Sally appear at frequent intervals. Readers who long for the leering sexuality and sadism of the old weird terror pulps will be rewarded. Agent: Amy Moore-Benson, AMB Literary Management (Canada).
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Violence, death, and destruction haunt a young woman and the detective who wants to save her in McKenzie's latest. Twenty-five years ago, when Sally was 6, her mother was murdered and Sally was warned to run-by her dead mother. More recently, a deformed man beat and raped two nuns, one of whom died, while looking for the child who fled that night. But the adult Sally has kept her head down for years, staying off the radar of those who seek her. Now she works as a makeup artist for the dead, making corpses look their best for a Portland funeral home. When a woman is run over just outside the mortuary and Sally touches the just-dead body, she sees the killing through the victim's eyes. She meets Jersey Castle, a Portland detective whose punk band was playing a club near the murder, and there's a spark between them. Soon, Sally is missing, abducted by a strange man with a ruined face and taken back to the house where her family died many years ago to perform an odd ritual. Jersey; his lesbian partner, Amarela Valente-a femme fatale whom men find irresistible; and Kameelah Steele, a Seattle detective, are on the trail, trying to piece together why Sally was abducted. The plot is a combination of same old, same old with some original touches. It's well-executed, especially when it comes to the appearance of an unconventional motorcycle gang, but McKenzie's tortured prose, endless detail on the funerary process, and gratuitous violence do not work. Most unfortunate is the dialogue, which is both unbelievable and often inappropriate. His characters don't just speak to one another; they mutter, groan, laugh, chortle, grumble, sneer, and whine their lines. Despite the blood, guts, and falling bodies, McKenzie shoots for a light, bantering tone, which falls flat.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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