Cemetery Dance

How it reads

Cemetery Dance is mystery (occult detective thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and faith. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 435 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.