title: The Graveyard Position: A Novel of Suspense
author:  Robert Barnard 
description: Spiritualist Clarissa Cantelo's death reunites her surviving family members, an eccentric clan guarding some dark secrets, in this blackly comic whodunit from prolific British author Barnard (<i>A Cry from the Dark</i>). When Clarissa's nephew and heir, lawyer Merlyn Docherty, who's been living in Brussels, resurfaces after two decades, his relatives challenge his claim; everyone thought he was long dead. Motivated by self-preservation to probe the Cantelo family's twisted dynamics and complex alliances, Merlyn slowly pieces together a pattern that hints at conspiracies and sexual deviancy. An attempt on his life that claims another's suggests he's getting too close to the truth for someone's comfort. Fans of classic murder puzzles will be delighted by the careful hiding of clues in plain sight. Few writers of contemporary mysteries can equal Barnard's ability to meld a clever fair-play plot with satire. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Graveyard Shift
  
  A Charley Davidson Novella
  
  By Darynda Jones
  
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  The Graveyard Shift
  
  A Charley Davidson Novella
  
  By Darynda Jones
  
  1001 Dark Nights
  
  Copyright 2020 Darynda Jones
  
  ISBN: 978-1-951812-06-5
  
  Foreword: Copyright 2014 M. J. Rose
  
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  The Graveyard Shift
  
  A Charley Davidson Novella
  
  By Darynda Jones
  
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