Dead Silence [Paperback]

A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library One of the Best SFF Books of 2022(Gizmodo) One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022(CrimeReads) A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction!

TitanicmeetsEvent Horizonin this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployedmade obsoletewhen her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

What they find is shocking: theAurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isnt right.

Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on theAurorabefore she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.

Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.Chloe Gong, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThese Violent Delights

Also by S.A. Barnes:
Ghost Station
Cold Eternity

S.A. BARNES works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese-stick-as-bookmark. The author has published numerous novels across different genres, butDead Silenceis the first published as S. A. Barnes. Barnes lives in Illinois with more dogs and books than is advisable and a very patient spouse.

I ate this book in one sitting because I was in the mood to be freaked out and it delivered tremendously. Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense. Chloe Gong,#1New York TimesbeslST