Waking Up Dead

Amanda Fasciano is a new-to-me author who has definitely made a spot on my list of always read authors. In her book, Waking Up Dead, she writes a captivating and thrilling story about Cadence. Cadence is smart and witty but unfortunately died while working. When she wakes up, dead, she is thrown int......more

Author Amanda Fasciano pens a breath-taking, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller in “Waking Up Dead (Life After Book 1)”. When Detective Cadence Riley is killed in the line of duty, she suddenly finds herself in an afterlife where she’s quickly recruited into an oversight group that monitors haunted si......more

Cadence Riley is having a heck of a bad day. She’s a detective or she was and goes out with her team to catch a very bad man and wakes up in a blank waiting room with a whole bunch of zonked out people in it. She learns out that she has died and is given a choice go on to whatever is next or stay an......more

I didn’t expect to love this book as much as I did, but wow, what a fun, fresh take on both urban fantasy and crime fiction. Cadence Riley is exactly the kind of heroine I root for: tough, smart, and still determined to do the right thing… even after death. Her dry humor and no-nonsense attitude imm......more

Finished listening to the audiobook last week, and I am still playing different parts over in my head. Fasciano's first book in The Life After Series is a brilliant start to a procedural series. Ghostly detectives and malevolent spirits, this delivers exactly what I would want in Beetlejuice meets La......more