The Dead Key, D. M. Pulley
The Dead Key, D. M. Pulley
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The Dead Key

Author: D. M. Pulley

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/01/2015


Synopsis

Winner—Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award—Grand Prize and Mystery & Thriller Fiction WinnerIt’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost. In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault—and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.

About D. M. Pulley

D. M. Pulley is a professional engineer from Shaker Heights, Ohio, who specializes in rehabbing historic structures as well as conducting forensic investigations of building failures. Pulley’s structural survey of an abandoned building in Cleveland formed the basis for The Dead Key.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tifa on February 11, 2015

If I were rating the 1970s storyline and characters, this would have easily been 5 stars, but the 1998 portions were awful. I couldn't stand the lead character who was supposedly so smart she graduated in five years summa cum laude, but was a dumb girl who did stupid things, made awful choices and w......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on September 08, 2016

I found it amazing that you could just shut down a bank and leave everything as it is for twenty years. That was a very interesting idea for a book. We get to follow Iris in the present time as she tries to unravel the bank's past and we also get to know Beatrice that worked at the bank in 1978, the......more

Bell, Book & Candle | The Dead Key Review & Giveaway There should really be a guidebook about how to survive in scary situations — and everyone should be required to read it. Here let me start off with an important rule: Rule 1: Mind your own business. Someone lied, curiosity didn't kill the cat. If......more

Goodreads review by "Avonna on September 13, 2015

The Dead Key is D.M. Pulley’s first book and the winner of the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award-Grand Prize and Mystery Thriller Fiction Winner. After reading and being immersed in this mystery, I can understand the awards. I lived and worked in Downtown Cleveland during both protagonists’ time......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 01, 2015

The star of this novel isn’t any of the characters—it’s the eerie, brooding presence of the First Bank of Cleveland, a looming hulk which was inexplicably abandoned twenty years before the book begins, with all its furniture and files and trappings intact—right down to the paper clips in the secreta......more