The Cry of the Dead

The Cry of the Dead

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"No!!! Don't hurt me!!!" were the first words that Chloé Mallet heard when she entered the small and usually quite cemetery in her neighborhood where her father lay. Chloé was going to visit her father's grave when she heard the screams. The next thing Chloé saw was a tall, muscular man with blond hair brutally kill another person. Chloé was hiding behind a grave stone watching this when the tall man walked past Chloé. Chloé recognized the man instantly, but unfortunately for her the man spotted Chloé and lunged at her. Right when he was inches away from Chloé, he recognized her face. He stopped and warned her at gun point not to tell anyone what she saw happen or she would receive the same fate. "I'll be watching your every move," hissed the man. "If you tell anyone what you just saw, you'll regret it." With that the tall blond haired man left leaving Chloé unharmed in the cemetery. Chloé ran to the victim. The victim was an eighteen to nineteen year old boy whose name was Ben Lupien. With suspects piling up, Chloé included, she decides to give out the information she has. Chloé goes on a quest to turn in the murderer, but what happens when she tells Olivia Ambroise and Bill Dechant, the detective and chief police in charge of the murder case, what she saw and who the killer of Ben Lupien was? Find out in The Cry of the Dead.
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In a small, quiet town where everyone knows everyone else's secrets, a group of childhood friends is forced to confront their darkest mistake. Years ago, they covered up a murder they committed as teenagers, convinced that silence was the only way to escape the consequences. But when a series of brutal killings begins to mirror the events of that fateful night, the group's carefully constructed facade begins to crumble. As the killer gets closer, they are confronted with a chilling truth: the past is never truly buried. Someone knows what they did. Someone wants revenge. Elliott "Eli" Thatcher, haunted by the weight of the cover-up, feels guilty for his role in hiding the truth, even though he wasn't directly involved in the crime. Caleb Pierce swears he's moved on, but he's still clinging to the lies they told all those years ago. Ronan McClain, the former bully, is still the same, pushing the group to cover their tracks as the tension grows. Elena "Ellie" Harper is the one who begins to connect the dots and digs deeper into the mystery, slowly uncovering the identity of the killer. And Sophie North, the former lover of Eli, is torn between protecting her past and unearthing the truth that threatens to destroy everything. As the killer's motives become clearer, the group must reckon with the consequences of their actions and decide whether they can live with the weight of their silence-or if they will finally reveal the truth before it's too late.

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