Robin M. (robinmy) - , reviewed on 10/30/2020 + 2104 more book reviews

While cleaning out the basement of her home, Amelia Gray finds an old stereoscope with a picture. The picture shows a man and two young girls standing in front of a house. Amelia notices a woman in the window of that house...a woman that looks exactly like her. Doing some research into the stereoscope, Amelia learns the story of Kroll Cemetery, a place where bodies from a mass suicide are buried. Some members of the Kroll family have seen Amelia's work and want her to help restore their cemetery. Amelia wants to find out more about the woman in the picture.

This is the fourth book in the Graveyard Queen series. Amanda Steven's descriptions of Charleston and the local cemeteries sets the mood for her dark, creepy stories. I felt the pace of the first half of the book was a bit slow. We kept going over the same things. The story did get very interesting in the second half when Amelia finally visited the cemetery. At that point, the book became hard to put down.

I was disappointed in Amelia and John Devlin's relationship. In the last book the problem with the ghosts that had attached themselves to John was finally resolved. Now we find that John and Amelia are both keeping secrets. I can't help but think that it certainly would be a step in the right direction if they actually talked about these secrets. But, it sounds like this will be carried over into the next book in the series. My rating: 3.5 Stars.

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