A
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cascade
of death sweeps through a small town, and a quaint funeral home is at
the center of the problem—but it’s not about the dead people there—it’s that
some of them aren’t exactly dead. Fifteen-year-old
Peter Livingston lives in the funeral home, but he doesn’t know about its
gruesome connection to a maxium-security prison—some of the prison’s not-dead in-mates are not-alive either.
Shadow’s Prisoners is filled with hor-ror and cliff-hanger chapters and
it’s a real page turner. In between the dis-gusting (rats) and the ugly (corpses)
and the evil (plotters and schemers),
there are also glimpses of warmth and humor that encourage the reader to stay
hot on the trail with Peter, who armed only with a flashlight, searches through
it everything and anything to solve the mystery. Who or what is killing so many animals and people in his town?
There’s the
doctor who rides a motor-cycle through town to take care of his patients.
There’s the teacher who is a recycling
fiend. There’s Peter’s father who is struggling to keep the old mortuary from
becoming as dead as its clients. There’s Peter’s uncle who understands, more
than anybody else, why it is necessary to brave the worst to discover the
unnatural truth. And there’s the FBI agent who is forced to accept things way beyond
his skill-set. And these are all the good folks.
Ultimately,
this situation is for the birds—well actually a very special bird—who lives
with Peter’s family and causes no end of havoc.
