Elizabeth Evans Kirk: 2 books

The dead are the best listeners. 16-year-old Violet Chance thinks so, anyway. Which is why she spends most of her time in the graveyard, concocting elaborate stories of the departed, attending the funerals of strangers, and even impersonating the dead.After an unspeakable family trauma forces...

Bobby Cassel is a man between two islands - Rikers Island, where he has been held for nearly 10 years without being officially charged, and Hart Island, New York City's mass grave. When he is selected for the 'Ghoul Squad', Bobby and a handful of well-behaved inmates, take the foggy morning ferry...