Funeral Song, Carly Racklin
Funeral Song, Carly Racklin
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Funeral Song

Author: Carly Racklin

Narrator: Rosie Cusack

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2026

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

No one mourns the living dead. In the isolated town of Cairney, the Angel of Death, under specific circumstances, allows the dead to return to life ? but not always as desired. For Friede Inkerman, pianist to Cairney' s sacred funerals, Death' s gift is a curse, not a blessing. All she wants after being murdered by her wife and resurrected against her will is to finally rest in peace, free from the grief and suspicion that ostracize her from the rest of her death-worshipping town. On Allhallowsmas, Friede' s hope of passing on to eternal rest is dashed when Death' s sacred relic is stolen and the acolyte who guards it is brutally slain, putting all the dead souls in Cairney at risk of fading into oblivion at sunset. Friede also can't ignore how much the murder resembles her own ? an echo too haunting to dismiss. Clinging to her last happiness, her oldest friend Bastian, Friede descends into Cairney' s secrets to set things right and see her last wish granted. But Cairney is a town where nothing stays buried forever, and Friede' s search for answers unearths a plot born of ritual magic and twisted devotion that threatens everything she holds dear in her dead heart. An elegantly haunting, visceral work of supernatural horror blending gothic mystery and slow-burn psychological terror about a devout small town' s reckoning with death and the love that transcends it.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on January 10, 2026

Funeral Song was an unique take on the undead genre. I enjoyed the main characters and the way the author explored grief. At times the writing became a little too flowery and I didn't really like the Ending, but all in all it was a decent story.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on January 19, 2026

New Yorkโ€™s hottest new club is Funeral Song by Carly Racklin. This club has EVERYTHING: doomed romance, toxic lovers, toxic friends, universal triumph over death via ritual resurrection, total religious hegemony in a town that somehow no longer quite seems to exist, disaster bisexuals around every c......more

Goodreads review by Marisa (marisalynnreads) on January 31, 2026

A huge thank you as always to @deadskypub for the #gifted copy. "๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ง ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ." A gothic tale of the living dead, the complexity of grief & not letting it be your downfall, but be the resolution to your story. I love stumbling upon......more

Goodreads review by Lori on January 17, 2026

I picked this one up because the premise hooked me and, yes, the cover is ridiculously pretty. A town where the dead are resurrected and justโ€ฆ rejoin the living like itโ€™s no big deal? Sign me up. โ€œPraise All-Eternal Death who restores life to the dead.โ€ In Cairney, Death grants resurrection to its res......more

Goodreads review by Lilibet on January 24, 2026

The town of Cairney lies in the shadow of death, cut off from the rest of the world by a supernatural veil. Inside, death doesnโ€™t usually stickโ€“instead, sacred funerals performed in honor of the Angel of Death allow the townโ€™s residents to be resurrected, if thatโ€™s their wish. The issue is that Frei......more