Hear the Dead Cry
  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552573238
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

Hear the Dead Cry

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31 Dec 2011
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27 Nov 2014
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Think The Lovely Bones meets Sixth Sense and you've got Hear the Dead Cry.

The cemetery I know best is Forest Grove. I spend most of my time there. That's where most of my friends are . . . The ones my age and the children, they almost all need someone to talk to. They weren't ready. They'll tell you that.

Murray doesn't have many friends at school. A quiet loner with a troubled family life, he spends all his time down at Forest Grove cemetery, speaking to the dead and listening to their stories.

When he hears a terrified new voice pleading for help, Murray is convinced it is Nikki, a popular young cheerleader who went missing over a month ago - but who will believe him? And where is the body?

Together with Pearl, the daughter of the cemetery groundskeeper, Murray must struggle to uncover the truth in a town full of secrets.
  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552573238
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Charlie Price

Raised in Colorado and Montana, Charlie is now settled in Northern California. In addition to writing and working with therapeutic groups, Charlie is a trainer, an executive coach, and a business consultant. He is an avid reader, a decent guitar player, a pretty fair free-throw shooter, and a hopelessly addicted fisherman. His previous novel, The Interrogation of Gabriel James, won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.

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Praise for Hear the Dead Cry

A smart, funny, very clever page turner; unique and fun to read. As much as I wanted the mystery solved, I didn't want it to end. You're going to like this book

Asuperb debut novel . . . Readers will find themselves rooting for these characters

Publishers Weekly

Readers will like the edginess and be intrigued by the extrasensory elements, as well as the darker turns the mystery takes. This is something different

Booklist

This will be an easy sell to mystery readers, and will have lots of appeal to those familiar with that genre only through television or movies

Price's background in mental health and education is prevalent in the sections where he elicits sympathy for the mentally ill and the loners in society

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