Mary van Amsterdam and the Tragically Dead in Recovery
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Publisher: Cute & Macabre Ltd
Genre: Afterlife, Ghosts, Supernatural
Description
Mary is no ordinary Amsterdam afterlife spirit, she has devoted herself to caring for the Tragically Dead in Recovery. This menagerie of dead animal misfits struggles to come to terms with the trauma of their own gruesome deaths. Through guidance, empathy, and magic, she keeps her cute and macabre companions, on course.
When a terrorizing rogue Soul Reaper threatens the idyllic Amsterdam afterlife, Mary must discover a new side of her mystical abilities. Only then can she hope to protect what she holds most dear.
Gather your ice-cream tokens, hop on her bicycle and soar high over picturesque canals of Amsterdam, the foggy, lamp-lit streets of Prague, and the misty Royal Mile of Edinburgh with Mary van Amsterdam and the Tragically Dead in Recovery.
Illustrations
In this first illustrated edition, scenes from the elegant afterlife continent and its quirky spirits are rendered to complement this page-turning tale.
Ideal Fantasy Travel Fiction for a European Vacation
Author notes provide access to guided walking routes as depicted on the page so travelers to Amsterdam, Prague, and Edinburgh can follow in the footsteps of Mary and her friends. Though the afterlife story and its characters are fantasy, most of the locations cited in the novel can be visited safely within the living realm.
The author’s research notes also reveal the actual historical events that inspire the origin stories of some characters:
- 1886 Eel Riots
- the horse-drawn fire engine crash at Het Café Bruine Paard
- 2005 demise of the Domino Sparrow (who secretly wanted to be a raven
- …and more