The Deadly Daylight – Ash Harrier (Pantera Press, $18.99)
Reviewed by Louise Ward, Wardini Books
Tranquility Funeral Home nestles in the heart of Damocles Cove, and within its walls resides our hero, Alice England.
Alice is 12 years old, organised and literal, solitary and studious. She assists her father, Thaddeus, in preparing corpses for their funerals, and feels secure in the knowledge that she will grow up to carry on the family business.
Alice has an ability; some items of significance that belonged to a dead person have a resonance, and she is able to access aspects of their life and death when she holds them.
Whilst putting a childhood toy into the casket of George Devenish, Alice becomes convinced that his death was not as simple as reported. George died from exposure to the sunlight to which he was allergic, but why was he out at dawn when he knew the danger?