Mystery
Silence for the Dead
2014·520 pages
In 1919, a woman poses as a nurse at a remote asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, uncovering ghostly hauntings and dark secrets.
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In 1919, a woman poses as a nurse at a remote asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, uncovering ghostly hauntings and dark secrets.
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""Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...." In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Slow-burn secret romance with open-door intimacy between leads
Violence & gore
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War injuries, murder, gun violence, and ghostly harm; some gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Brief substance and drug abuse references in asylum setting
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Central haunted-house ghosts, spectral forces, shared nightmares
Political content
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Post-WWI backdrop; class and war-trauma social themes
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide ideation and at least one suicide attempt depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Past abuse, SA themes, child abuse refs; asylum confinement
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