The Restorer by Amanda Stevens

The Restorer (The Graveyard Queen, #1)

by Amanda Stevens

Never acknowledge the dead.
Never stray far from hallowed ground.
Never get close to the haunted.
Never,
ever tempt fate.

My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to these rules passed down from my father...until now.

Detective John Devlin needs my help to find a killer, but he is haunted by ghosts who shadow his every move. To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the headstone symbols lead me closer to truth and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next.

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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This one kept me guessing until the end.

Ameila Gray is a cemetery restorer who finds that cemeteries are a great place, as a whole, to avoid the dead. She sees ghosts, just like her dad, and he has given her rules to live by, rules that no longer keep her safe.

It starts when a body is found in a cemetry she's working on, somewhere she has photographs of, while the work goes on, more bodies are found and the killer is using her website to send messages. The detective involved has his own ghosts to deal with and it's all a mess.

There are moments that don't flow as well as maybe they could but this isn't a bad read at all, I enjoyed it.

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