Graveyard Shift
- 144
- Pages
- about 2.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Five night workers find a freshly dug grave where none should be: “Graveyard Shift” is a brief, dark mystery with a strong hook. Some readers find the book too short to grow attached to anyone in it and its science too lightly sketched to unsettle. M. L. Rio’s characters share only their late shifts and an old college cemetery, and their search for an explanation leads towards questions of scientific ethics.
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About the book
THE USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER! The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.4 across 150 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 51% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.4 | 150 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Graveyard Shift?
It has 144 pages — shorter than 100% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
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Same shelf — Horror — with scores between 7.1 and 8.3, closest to this book.
