The bestselling author of international BookTok sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story of a group of misfits who meet in the local cemetery each night 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.
Author Biography
M. L. Rio is the author of international bestseller and BookTok sensation If We
Were
Villains. She holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London
and
Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in early modern English literature from the
University of
Maryland, College Park. Her research explores representations of madness and
mood
disorder on the early modern stage. She lives in Washington, D. C. with too many
books,
too many records, and a mutt called Marlowe.
