Graveyard Shift
A Novella
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Narrated by:
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Jess Nahikian
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M. L. Rio
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Max Meyers
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Si Chen
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Susan Dalian
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Tim Campbell
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Written by:
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M. L. Rio
About this listen
This program features multicast narration.
The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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What the critics say
"This place has everything—rats, fungus, thrills, chills, mysteries, hostile incidents—and M.L. Rio deftly weaves it all together into a short, sweet (okay maybe not that sweet) story. A rad, crisp, creepy read."—Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of Black River Orchard and The Book of Accidents
“Like all M. L. Rio's work, Graveyard Shift is shot through with cool, heavily dosed with ennui, and dense with people-pleasures. Within this tangled skein of complicated characters (ranging from sweetly unhinged to truly problematic), Rio presents a world of nihilistic macabre only to strip it back, painting the gruesome with a softer brush and her singular gift for portraiture.”—Olivie Blake, bestselling author of Atlas Six
“Graveyard Shift is wonderful—dark, strange and hair-raisingly tense—it spills over with atmosphere, full of flawed, fascinating characters. I raced through it.”—Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street