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264 pages, Paperback
First published March 2, 2021
“Even a little kid knows certain basic things if he’s not soft in the attic. You said please, you said thank you, you didn’t flap your weenie around in public or chew with your mouth open, and you didn’t talk to dead folks when they were standing next to living folks who were just starting to miss them.”
* It makes no sense for it to be published by Hard Case Crime. Just like it made zero sense for Joyland to get the same treatment. I loved Joyland, but it’s not a crime story.
Jamie Conklin, narrator of this novel: “So yeah, I see dead people. As far as I can remember, I always have. But it’s not like in that movie with Bruce Willis.”So seeing dead people is Jamie’s “unnatural ability” that is hinted at in the Goodreads description of this novel. I’m not sure why it’s only hinted at, as the revelation comes in the first few pages, along with the two facts that do, all jokes aside, make the “I see dead people” story here quite different from The Sixth Sense. The dead people here know that they’re dead and, more importantly, the dead are incapable of lying if asked a direct question.
Me, reading those lines: “Okay, but it’s pretty much exactly like that movie.”