Dead Connection, Charlie Price
Dead Connection, Charlie Price
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Dead Connection

Author: Charlie Price

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008


Synopsis

Teenager Murray Keifer just doesn't fit in at school. And it doesn't help that his mother is too busy entertaining male friends to be involved in his life. His only friends are "Dearly" and "Beloved"-dead people buried in the local cemetery. That's right, Murray talks to the dead. But Murray's peaceful and unusual world is torn asunder when he hears the voice of missing teen Nikki Parker, buried in someone else's grave. Daughter of the groundskeeper and Murray's one living friend, Pearl believes in his special gift and is determined to give Nikki justice. Meanwhile Deputy Roman Gates draws closer to solving the mystery behind Nikki's disappearance. Author Charlie Price's debut novel has garnered praise for this unusual, and sometimes funny, mystery. Booklist says listeners "will like the edginess and be intrigued by the extrasensory elements as well as the darker turns the mystery takes."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 28, 2009

This book had great potenial, but the execution lacked a bit. The story was interesting, but never had any true strong points and there never seemed to be a climax to me. The characters were okay, I liked a few more than others. Sometimes I felt as if the story could've done without a few of the cha......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on September 22, 2010

Booktalk: Murray Kiefer is a loner with a weird name and a disaster of a mother. His real friends are at the cemetery. He sits at their graves and listens to the dead tell him their stories, and they listen to him. But now he hears a new voice crying out, asking for help, asking to be found. While M......more

Goodreads review by Anna on October 18, 2009

This book wasn't what I expected. The cover says, "He talks to the dead. The dead talk to him." I thought it would be more of a story about Murray, the kid they are talking about on the cover. But it really reads more like an episode of Law and Order. There was a crime committed, and the story jumps......more

Goodreads review by Anabel on May 28, 2019

Personal Response: I liked this book but I didn’t like some of the formatting. I didn’t like how the book jumped from multiple points of view from chapter to chapter. It got hard to follow where the main story was going. Other than that the book was excellent and a good read. Plot Summary: Murray was a......more

Goodreads review by Peyton on March 26, 2023

This book wasn’t bad but the flipping between characters was a bit difficult. It was also all over the place with the story and introduced a whole other plot in the last twenty or so pages to make the new storyline fit the existing one. The characters also felt underdeveloped despite the fact that w......more