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The Waiting Mortuary #1-3
The Waiting Mortuary Series: Books 1-3
The first three chilling horror books in the best-selling L.V. Pires The Waiting Mortuary, Vigil Black, and Death Watch."Gripping from the opening chapter, I breezed through the pages with great gusto, devouring each word as an ever-thickening story grew before my eyes." – Amazon ReviewerA serial-killer series that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Meet Bash Trawler, a high-school kid who just wants an easy summer job. When he discovers an advertisement in the local paper for night watch at a nearby funeral home, he jumps at the chance to make quick money. But staying up all night watching corpses for an eccentric war vet turns into something out of his worst nightmares.
Meet Casey McClair, a girl with a serious past. Kidnapped, tortured, abandoned, Casey needs to find peace. Her worst fears revolve around the waiting mortuary and what happened to her there last summer, but when she finally musters the courage to return, she finds her worst nightmares still waiting for her. Casey’s memories go back much farther and her fears much deeper than she could have ever realized.
Meet Jack Skilton, a reporter who wants to get to the bottom of things. After taking a long break from work to search for his missing son, Jack finally returns and is assigned to cover the story about a supposed haunting at the waiting mortuary. His first step inside the abandoned home sends shivers down his spine, but that won’t stop Jack from finding out the true power of the waiting mortuary and what he discovers will definitely make front-page news if only he can live long enough to write about it.
Don’t miss THE WAITING MORTUARY series, three books in one that are sure to keep you reading.Available in digital, print and audiobook.What readers are
★★★★★ "Sick, twisted, thrilling, engrossing. I was unable to put it down! I loved it...especially the twist at the end!"
★★★★★ "The Waiting Mortuary has a lot of twists & turns & just when you think it's over...it grabs you again."
★★★★★ "My heart was racing for the entire last half of the book and it still didn't slow down for quite a while after I finished."
★★★★★ "All 3 characters are brought together with their own stories to tell in this intriguing book. It all comes together in a fast-paced story."
★★★★★ "One of my new favorites. Tense and well-paced, it's definitely something I would suggest to others."
★★★★★ "I loved this book. I was guessing until the end and the implications of the final pages chilled me to the bone! I look forward to more from this author!"
Buy the box set and start a series you won’t want to put down!
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, and horror and mystery authors such as Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, Robert McCammon, Brian Keene, Darcy Coates, Amy Cross, Jeff Strand, Ambrose Ibsen, Jeremy Robinson, Nick Cutter, Blake Crouch,
Meet Bash Trawler, a high-school kid who just wants an easy summer job. When he discovers an advertisement in the local paper for night watch at a nearby funeral home, he jumps at the chance to make quick money. But staying up all night watching corpses for an eccentric war vet turns into something out of his worst nightmares.
Meet Casey McClair, a girl with a serious past. Kidnapped, tortured, abandoned, Casey needs to find peace. Her worst fears revolve around the waiting mortuary and what happened to her there last summer, but when she finally musters the courage to return, she finds her worst nightmares still waiting for her. Casey’s memories go back much farther and her fears much deeper than she could have ever realized.
Meet Jack Skilton, a reporter who wants to get to the bottom of things. After taking a long break from work to search for his missing son, Jack finally returns and is assigned to cover the story about a supposed haunting at the waiting mortuary. His first step inside the abandoned home sends shivers down his spine, but that won’t stop Jack from finding out the true power of the waiting mortuary and what he discovers will definitely make front-page news if only he can live long enough to write about it.
Don’t miss THE WAITING MORTUARY series, three books in one that are sure to keep you reading.Available in digital, print and audiobook.What readers are
★★★★★ "Sick, twisted, thrilling, engrossing. I was unable to put it down! I loved it...especially the twist at the end!"
★★★★★ "The Waiting Mortuary has a lot of twists & turns & just when you think it's over...it grabs you again."
★★★★★ "My heart was racing for the entire last half of the book and it still didn't slow down for quite a while after I finished."
★★★★★ "All 3 characters are brought together with their own stories to tell in this intriguing book. It all comes together in a fast-paced story."
★★★★★ "One of my new favorites. Tense and well-paced, it's definitely something I would suggest to others."
★★★★★ "I loved this book. I was guessing until the end and the implications of the final pages chilled me to the bone! I look forward to more from this author!"
Buy the box set and start a series you won’t want to put down!
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, and horror and mystery authors such as Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, Robert McCammon, Brian Keene, Darcy Coates, Amy Cross, Jeff Strand, Ambrose Ibsen, Jeremy Robinson, Nick Cutter, Blake Crouch,
602 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 26, 2020
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About the author
L.V. Pires
16 books54 followersWith several books in the top 100 U.S. Horror Fiction and Horror Classics categories, award-winning novelist and short-story writer, L.V. Pires is the author of terrifying tales that are sure to keep readers up late into the night. Mystery and suspense climax into total terror in this author's latest releases, including THE WAITING MORTUARY, VIGIL BLACK, and DEATH WATCH.
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June 12, 2020
This boxset contains the first three books in The Waiting Mortuary series; The Waiting Mortuary; Vigil Black; and Death Watch. The four main characters are Casey McClair (17), who ends up being kidnapped whilst trying to improve her tennis game late at night; Bash Trawler (17), who has been faking working during the summer, but finally realises he needs a real, but easy job and manages to get a night watch job at Kessler Funeral Home, watching to see if any of the dead bodies wake up while the owner sleeps; reporter Jack Skilton , who had been searching for his missing son, but on finally returning to work he gets onto the story of a haunted waiting mortuary in Westport; and then there is the character only known as X, a serial killer, raised by three strong women, so he knows all about the pain of life and makes his victims fight him if they want to survive.
Casey is the third teenage girl to go missing in the small towns around Westport in the last few weeks and it looks like she won’t be the last. This serial killer has been practising his work for a long time and his former victims were too weak and didn’t give him any sort of challenge. Now he goes for stronger victims, athletes and a tennis player in Casey’s case. X is hiding in plain sight, dropping off bodies at the Kessler Funeral Home, leaving the somewhat mad, Vietnam vet, to believe the hospital is killing people and sending them to him. Alfred Kessler has fallen apart since his wife died some three years ago and his home and business are in a right state! He hires Bash to watch the Waiting Mortuary each night, as he fears the people in there may not actually be dead. He is haunted by what he did in Vietnam and the ghosts of the dead, friends and foes that he can still see in his nightmares and even his waking hours. Bash just tries to keep him on track and making sense, but wants the money he has been offered more than anything else.
Surviving the actions of the serial killer and coming to in the Waiting Mortuary, leave Casey damaged and thinking of herself as a murderer now. She has to see a court appointed therapist, Dr Bruner, and he suggests she go back to the site of her torture, the Mortuary, nut that all took place as t very different location. Her mother and step-father Phil, go off on yet another cruise, like they did when she was ten and they left her alone with their grandmother, who was obviously in the latter stages of dementia. Now her aunt has been roped in to look after Casey and her step-brother Kenny (16), but basically hides away in her room watching TV shows. Casey has been left to practically raise herself and has built a shell all around her, now this event has either cracked or strengthen this shell. A boy meets her as she escapes from her first party, and tries to approach her in the dark. The boy, Lance, apologises and tries to get her to meet him the next day.
Lance Crux has suffered a tragic loss in his past and understands a bit of what she may be suffering and how she is feeling. But will he actually know what she has become? Casey struggles with figuring out wat is reality and what is just a hallucination, as events start occur again, some months after she recovers from that summer’s horrific situation. There is more going on than anyone could ever know and the old Waiting Mortuary now seems to be haunted and justice will be served by its evil master. Jack Skilton has to do a story on the haunting and must contact the new owner of the building for permission to enter the building, Cassandra Kessler, Alfred’s daughter, who is refusing to allow the local council to demolish her parent’s home. There is an entity called the watcher and they decide who lives and who dies, but someone must!
A great series, with all the stories interlinking between the characters and the actions of some, forcing action onto others. What happened to Casey, leads to another sick individual taking advantage of what is happening, with a serial killer targeting victims in the surrounding towns. The dead taken brutally before their time, can’t rest where they were left and it seems a conflux of souls forced together by evil, are stuck in place and someone or something is controlling it. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, there is plenty in this boxset to keep you involved in the serial killer aspect of the storyline and the efforts to track them down and stop them. It certainly throws up a few surprises and will leave you wondering who is behind certain killings. A fantastic and complicated storyline, with a good block of the supernatural thrown in. I really enjoyed reading the books. I received an AEC copy of this boxset from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the boxset above.
Casey is the third teenage girl to go missing in the small towns around Westport in the last few weeks and it looks like she won’t be the last. This serial killer has been practising his work for a long time and his former victims were too weak and didn’t give him any sort of challenge. Now he goes for stronger victims, athletes and a tennis player in Casey’s case. X is hiding in plain sight, dropping off bodies at the Kessler Funeral Home, leaving the somewhat mad, Vietnam vet, to believe the hospital is killing people and sending them to him. Alfred Kessler has fallen apart since his wife died some three years ago and his home and business are in a right state! He hires Bash to watch the Waiting Mortuary each night, as he fears the people in there may not actually be dead. He is haunted by what he did in Vietnam and the ghosts of the dead, friends and foes that he can still see in his nightmares and even his waking hours. Bash just tries to keep him on track and making sense, but wants the money he has been offered more than anything else.
Surviving the actions of the serial killer and coming to in the Waiting Mortuary, leave Casey damaged and thinking of herself as a murderer now. She has to see a court appointed therapist, Dr Bruner, and he suggests she go back to the site of her torture, the Mortuary, nut that all took place as t very different location. Her mother and step-father Phil, go off on yet another cruise, like they did when she was ten and they left her alone with their grandmother, who was obviously in the latter stages of dementia. Now her aunt has been roped in to look after Casey and her step-brother Kenny (16), but basically hides away in her room watching TV shows. Casey has been left to practically raise herself and has built a shell all around her, now this event has either cracked or strengthen this shell. A boy meets her as she escapes from her first party, and tries to approach her in the dark. The boy, Lance, apologises and tries to get her to meet him the next day.
Lance Crux has suffered a tragic loss in his past and understands a bit of what she may be suffering and how she is feeling. But will he actually know what she has become? Casey struggles with figuring out wat is reality and what is just a hallucination, as events start occur again, some months after she recovers from that summer’s horrific situation. There is more going on than anyone could ever know and the old Waiting Mortuary now seems to be haunted and justice will be served by its evil master. Jack Skilton has to do a story on the haunting and must contact the new owner of the building for permission to enter the building, Cassandra Kessler, Alfred’s daughter, who is refusing to allow the local council to demolish her parent’s home. There is an entity called the watcher and they decide who lives and who dies, but someone must!
A great series, with all the stories interlinking between the characters and the actions of some, forcing action onto others. What happened to Casey, leads to another sick individual taking advantage of what is happening, with a serial killer targeting victims in the surrounding towns. The dead taken brutally before their time, can’t rest where they were left and it seems a conflux of souls forced together by evil, are stuck in place and someone or something is controlling it. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, there is plenty in this boxset to keep you involved in the serial killer aspect of the storyline and the efforts to track them down and stop them. It certainly throws up a few surprises and will leave you wondering who is behind certain killings. A fantastic and complicated storyline, with a good block of the supernatural thrown in. I really enjoyed reading the books. I received an AEC copy of this boxset from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the boxset above.
June 8, 2020
If you like fantasy with a touch of horror.
These stories were outstanding I will be honest I read them a bit too fast so that I could do this review but plan on going back and re-reading within the next month. The pieces were so easy to read they just flowed such excellent writing. Bash, Casey, and Jack were marvelous characters, and each story so unique. If you like fantasy with a touch of horror these is the collection to pick up six hundred plus pages of truly awesome reading. This one is a five-star piece all the way! I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
These stories were outstanding I will be honest I read them a bit too fast so that I could do this review but plan on going back and re-reading within the next month. The pieces were so easy to read they just flowed such excellent writing. Bash, Casey, and Jack were marvelous characters, and each story so unique. If you like fantasy with a touch of horror these is the collection to pick up six hundred plus pages of truly awesome reading. This one is a five-star piece all the way! I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
May 28, 2020
Great books! Each story is different but they all revolve around the waiting mortuary. I like how the tone shifts from book to book based on the character's experience. It starts as a serial killer thriller and then shifts to a more introspective story and how it impacts one of the killer's victims. The last book is a roller coaster ride that shows what's been lurking deep inside the mortuary this whole time! Freaky!
June 22, 2020
Ok so if you are looking for a book to scare the crap out of you here ya go! I had to stop reading this before bed cause I kept freaking myself out. Talk about getting chills down your spine while reading or finding yourself looking over your shoulder at every little noise...yep this series does that to you. Read at your own risk.... it's creepy. But I loved it.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
June 7, 2020
The story lines were terrific, the character work was fantastic and each book had a fairly smooth flow to them. This was a great, spine tingling box set and each book kept me hooked from beginning to end. I look forward to more from this author.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
June 13, 2020
This is books 1-3 of The Waiting Mortuary Series. I thought this was a great set. Each book grabbed my interest and held it throughout. Each is well written with a great plot. I would recommend reading.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
July 9, 2020
These are three fantastically gory and dark stories that can be read alone but reading them as a series puts the cherry on the whipped cream and sprinkles. I can't say that one was any better than the others because they were all great.
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