the dirt on ninth grave a novel darynda jones

Sent by the darkest force, one that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. She almost feels safe with him around, except for the lies.īut no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her, the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man whose mission is to kill her. A devastatingly handsome man whose smile is breathtaking and whose touch is scalding.

She senses a darker force that wants to cause her harm, and finds a friend she feels she can confide in and trust.

This time (there have been eight others, as the title implies) in a small village in New York where she is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from.Ĭharley begins to realize she can see dead people, and the live ones entering her life seem to know things about her, things they hide with lies and half-truths. So THE DIRT ON NINTH GRAVE gives Charley another opportunity to practice her own form of badassery. And if I’d missed those, as I am wont to do, there’s Charley’s cherry-red Jeep wrangler named “Misery” (thank you, Stephen King) and the bumper sticker that reads, “If it has tires or testicles, it’s gonna give you trouble.” And, of course, the friendly motorcycle gang with the leader riding “Odin.”Īnd if I still could miss all of those clues, there’s the number of times she used some derivation of the word “badass” in our chat. If I couldn’t figure that out from the actions and attitude of her protagonist, Charley Davidson, then Darynda’s reverence for Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm was a strong clue. Darynda Jones is into “badassery” (her word, coined, I’m sure just for this interview).

The dirt on ninth grave a novel darynda jones