The Gifter

Some gifts remain hidden until they're raised by the dead. Morris Kent has a noose hanging in his hallway and a plan to use it. He's a postman, a drunk, and by his own reckoning, a spectacular failure. His wife left. His daughter barely calls. His boss can't stand him. The only person who gives a damn is Gloria, his relentlessly cheerful colleague who talks to the dead. Then a letter turns up-decades old, never delivered-but wants to be. It refuses to be destroyed. Morris sets out from his small, sleepy English town to deliver it. But dark forces are unleashed, hell-bent on stopping the letter from falling into its rightful hands. Morris is drawn into a world he can't explain. It turns out Gloria isn't the only one who can see things that shouldn't be there. Morris Kent is a gifter. And the dead have been waiting a very long time for someone like him. The Gifter is a darkly funny, deeply human supernatural thriller set in the summer of 1989 - a story about lost love, cold-case murder, second chances, and the gifts hiding inside the most unlikely of people.