Amanda Stevens

Amelia Gray restores neglected cemeteries in South Carolina and sees the dead, a carefully ruled life that comes apart when a police detective walks into one of her graveyards. That is The Restorer, published in 2011, which opened the Graveyard Queen books. The Kingdom, The Prophet, The Visitor and The Sinner came after it, and The Awakening closed the sequence. The Abandoned, a short prequel with a different narrator, was issued just ahead of the first novel. The Visitor, the fourth novel, was shortlisted by readers for a Goodreads Choice award in horror in 2016. Amanda Stevens was raised in rural Arkansas, born in the town of Bradford, and has spent most of her career in Houston. The bulk of her seventy-odd books are romantic suspense for Harlequin Intrigue, and the Graveyard Queen keeps that thriller frame under its gothic surface.