A delightful, Tim Burton-esque story set in the heart of a Parisian Cemetery.

Accustomed to resting in peace in the shadow of this Père-Lachaise starlet, the dead of the Montparnasse cemetery suddenly become the target of a mysterious grave robber. A pen stolen from Marguerite Duras’s mausoleum, Desnos’s life preserver vanished… Who dares to desecrate the memory of the deceased?

Outraged, the dead band together to conduct an investigation. But how can they act from the afterlife? By recruiting a living person, for heaven’s sake! Long Lui, a young art dealer, thus finds himself swept up in a strange mission alongside Man Ray, Charles Cros, and the Princess of Benevento—all temporarily resurrected— while Death and God watch the events unfold with keen interest.

Ernestine Garnier is a journalist and editor and lives in Tours. The Cemetery Collector is her first novel.