2024/012: Saint Death's Daughter — C S E Cooney

2024/012: Saint Death's Daughter — C S E Cooney

He said that your violent reaction to violence was the core of your necromancy—that one day your body would revolt so magnificently against death that you would raise the very dead themselves... [loc. 308]

Miscellaneous Stones -- known as Lanie -- is in her teens when both her parents (Natty, the Chief Executioner, and Aba, the Royal Assassin) die. Her skills as necromancer are not yet mature enough to bring them back for more than a few moments, and when an unexpected creditor shows up demanding the family house and all its contents -- including the undead housekeeper Goody Graves, and the Sarcophagus of Souls which is locked by a padlock containing the ghost of Lanie's Grandpa Rad -- Lanie is forced to write to her elder sister Nita (short for Amanita) and ask her to come back from school.

( Read more... )