
Graveyard Shift
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Narrado por:
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Jess Nahikian
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M. L. Rio
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Max Meyers
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Si Chen
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Susan Dalian
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Tim Campbell
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M. L. Rio
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This program features multicast narration.
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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"This place has everything—rats, fungus, thrills, chills, mysteries, hostile incidents—and M.L. Rio deftly weaves it all together into a short, sweet (okay maybe not that sweet) story. A rad, crisp, creepy read."—Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of Black River Orchard and The Book of Accidents
“Like all M. L. Rio's work, Graveyard Shift is shot through with cool, heavily dosed with ennui, and dense with people-pleasures. Within this tangled skein of complicated characters (ranging from sweetly unhinged to truly problematic), Rio presents a world of nihilistic macabre only to strip it back, painting the gruesome with a softer brush and her singular gift for portraiture.”—Olivie Blake, bestselling author of Atlas Six
“Graveyard Shift is wonderful—dark, strange and hair-raisingly tense—it spills over with atmosphere, full of flawed, fascinating characters. I raced through it.”—Catriona Ward, bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street
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De: M. L. Rio
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The Bog Wife
- A Novel
- De: Kay Chronister
- Narrado por: Shannon McManus
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a “bog-wife.” Brought to life from vegetation, this woman is meant to carry on the family line. But when the bog fails—or refuses—to honor the bargain, the Haddesleys, a group of discordant siblings still grieving the mother who mysteriously disappeared years earlier, face an unknown future.
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Excellent writing that backs out of its own ending
- De Corinne en 03-22-25
De: Kay Chronister
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These Violent Delights
- A Novel
- De: Micah Nemerever
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal — an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating.
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Excellent book. Hated it.
- De Abby en 06-18-21
De: Micah Nemerever
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My Darling Dreadful Thing
- A Novel
- De: Johanna van Veen
- Narrado por: Jess Nesling
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.
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Holds Out Until the Last Minute
- De Andy en 12-19-24
De: Johanna van Veen
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Haunt Sweet Home
- De: Sarah Pinsker
- Narrado por: Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.
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very fun
- De Jylene Livengood en 03-24-25
De: Sarah Pinsker
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Voice Like a Hyacinth
- A Novel
- De: Mallory Pearson
- Narrado por: Kira Fixx
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another’s muses—so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they’ll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if it means naively resorting to the occult to unlock their creativity and to curse their esteemed, if notoriously creepy, professor. They soon learn the horrible price to be paid for such a transgressive ritual.
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Overly verbose
- De Erin en 03-30-25
De: Mallory Pearson
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An Academy for Liars
- De: Alexis Henderson
- Narrado por: Tracie Frank
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart. Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.
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A Dizzying story
- De Adrienne King en 10-14-24
De: Alexis Henderson
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Guillotine
- De: Delilah S. Dawson
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Ashby
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn.
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SO FUN AND SURPRISINGLY GORY
- De Bradley en 09-27-24
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All's Well
- De: Mona Awad
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
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Mixed bag but excellent performance
- De stuffbuyer en 09-22-21
De: Mona Awad
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The Honeymoon
- De: Shalini Boland
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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It was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives. But for newlywed Stella, the dream honeymoon has turned into a nightmare overnight. Her perfect husband, Austin, has vanished without a trace. Alone in Venice, Stella frantically searches for him. But as fear turns into confusion, she finds herself questioning everything she knows about the man she married. Has Austin really abandoned her, or has someone from his past finally caught up with him—the business partner he threatened to sue? The obsessive ex-girlfriend who refuses to let go?
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Great epilogue, didn’t expect it!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-05-24
De: Shalini Boland
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Ankle Snatcher
- Creature Feature Collection
- De: Grady Hendrix
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 45 m
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Marcus grew up believing his father killed his mother—then blamed it on the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the boogeyman will get you. Marcus still heeds the superstition, especially when he invites his new girlfriend over. Is Marcus haunted by a creature or has he just inherited his father’s murderous delusions? The night will tell.
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Maybe Itʻs Time to Invest in a Futon
- De Amazon Customer en 01-10-25
De: Grady Hendrix
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The Square of Sevens
- De: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde
- Duración: 20 h y 15 m
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Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient Cornish method of the Square of Sevens. Shortly before he dies, her father entrusts Red’s care to a gentleman scholar, along with a document containing the secret of the Square of Sevens technique.
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Didn’t work as an Audible for me
- De NTexHiker en 09-27-23
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Paradise Rot
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrado por: Brie Jackman
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
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Wrong Voice
- De Orville en 08-18-24
De: Jenny Hval, y otros
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So Thirsty
- De: Rachel Harrison
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway—not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she’d rather not confront, like her husband’s repeated infidelity.
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Weak Ending
- De Jennifer en 10-09-24
De: Rachel Harrison
It was a bit boring
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This was fun!
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All POVs were boring
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The story.
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A cast of characters that we learn about as the mystery that's discovered in the graveyard is uncovered.
I thought this was an intriguing story, while there was a scene or two that made me uncomfortable.
The reason this isn't a five star for me is because I just wanted to know how the story plot ends up & more about these characters, which I understand wasn't the point of the novella.
Though I like the themes and ideas that this story explored along with how M L Rio wrote this little horror/thriller tale.
Scooby-Doo gang with a nicotine addiction
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Great cast
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Okay but not great
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The Narration. Made Me. Want. to. Scream?
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Intriguing
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I struggle with most novellas, this one included. I don't mind a solid short story, but I don't prefer a story that feels as though it would work better as a full fledged story. I tell myself I won't buy novellas, however, when I love an author and it's the only format they are currently offering I cave and check them out. With all things Rio, Bardugo, Miller, Schwab, and Morgenstern - I will read it if she writes it.
It's fine. I'm Fine.
I appreciated the discussion of insomnia, as I have (like Rio herself) struggled with insomnia my entire life. It really is a cumbersome and futile fight to live amongst the healthy while being entirely so sleep deprived its hard to eat, drive, or function. Irony of irony was reading this book by audio at 2 am, while I painting- bc I couldn't sleep.
....you and me both Rio <3
This is a fun story to read on a porch, bundled in blanket, with a pumpkin to your right and a dog at your feet. *if you are not utilizing the audio format I highly suggest using her spotify playlist she includes so every part will feels a bit extra moody and spooky.
Excited for her next full length novel!
Concept 3/5
Setting 2/5
Characters 3/5
Mystery Itself 3/5
Clues 2/5
Solvability 3/5
Fear Factor 1/5
Plot 2/5
Coherence 3/5
Romance 1/5
Audio Reader 3.5/5
2.5 Stars
Verdict- Sleep Deprived, but not from the story...
Was disappointed it is a novella
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