{"first_publish_date": "2007", "description": "A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fiance, Matt Connolly. In the long months since, she\u2019s slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious \u201cgift\u201d received in the wake of her own brush with death.Now she\u2019s returned to lower Manhattan\u2019s historic Hastings House, site of the explosion, to conquer her fears and investigate a newly discovered burial ground. In this place  restless spirits hold the secrets not only of past injustice but of a very real and very contemporary conspiracy with deadly designs on the city\u2019s women-including Leslie herself.By night Matt visits her in dreams, warning her and offering clues to the truth, while by day she finds herself helped by-and attracted to-his flesh-and-blood cousin Joe. Torn by her feelings for both men, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead, Leslie struggles against the encroaching danger that threatens to overcome her. As she is drawn closer to the darkness at the heart of Hastings House, she must ultimately face the power of an evil mind, alone in a place where not even the men she loves can save her.\"The intense, unexpected conclusion will leave readers well satisfied.\"&#151Publishers Weekly", "title": "The Dead Room", "covers": [1458643, 2815611, 1953081, 8573670, 10675726, 10675738], "subject_places": ["New York", "New York (N.Y.)"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3557.R198 D435 2007"], "key": "/works/OL121763W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19246A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Mystery", "Fiction", "Romance", "Fantasy", "Thriller", "Women mediums", "Fiction, romance, general", "Fiction, romance, suspense", "Fiction, occult & supernatural", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "Large type books"], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-18T10:04:41.741767"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-14T10:06:14.678353"}}