From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget. One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only she can hear the victims. Elena Altieri never wanted to be famous, and certainly not at sixty-six years old. For over forty years she's been hiding from her New York City punk rock youth in the hills of Vermont, but now, the past is catching up with her in more ways than one. Not only is she losing her hearing, but the photographs she took of a recently deceased musician are going viral. Suddenly, she finds herself summoned back to the city for an exhibit celebrating her work and thrust into a world she'd hoped to keep locked away forever. A world where her best friend, Sin, is dead.  At the exhibit, Elena hears the screams of a woman ringing among the hum of her tinnitus, and she's sure something horrible has occurred. But since no one else can hear them, she convinces herself it's just her damaged ears playing tricks. She tries to put the event behind her, but when the auditory visions continue whenever she touches something of Sin's, she becomes convinced she's hearing her friend's murder. Desperate for answers, she has no choice but dig into the past, and what she'll uncover will not only force her to reckon with her own fractured memories, but might prove that Sin, and other innocent women from their youth, were the victims of an unspeakable crime that only she can solve. Old punks never die, and Elena's going to prove that. Edgy, mysterious, and full of heart, Hear the Dead is at once an inventive and biting story following one aging woman desperate to solve crimes from her past, and a thought-provoking meditation on friendship, justice, and what it means to remember who we are.  "Reading Hear the Dead is like holding a lit cherry bomb. A flat-out blast of a mystery with thriller beats and a gorgeous beating heart. I freaking love Elena Altieri. I'm besotted with her punk wisdom―what she's found and what she's lost unraveling this most dangerous and curious riddle. " ― Margot Douaihy, USA Today bestselling author of the Sister Holiday Mysteries "Clever and beautifully written!" ― Helene Tursten, author of An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Ann Dávila Cardinal is a two-time International Latino Book Award winning novelist and aging tattooed punk. Her first young adult horror novel, Five Midnights , was released in 2019, its sequel, Category Five, in 2020, and her horror rom-com, Breakup From Hell , in January of 2023. Her adult debut, the novel The Storyteller’s Death , was released by Sourcebooks in 2022, and her next magical realist adult novel, We Need No Wings , will be coming on September 10, 2024. Ann’s middle grade and nonfiction debut, Hispanic Star: Bad Bunny , releases on September 3, 2024, and her young adult horror comedy, You’ve Awoken Her , in summer 2025. Five Midnights won an AudioFile Earphones Award, an International Latino Book Award (2020), and was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award. Category Five was a finalist for the 2021 International Latino Book Award. The Storyteller's Deat h was a finalist for the Vermont Book Award and won gold in the popular fiction category of the International Latino Book Awards, 2023. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Our Shadows Have Claws (2022), Other Terrors : An Inclusive Anthology (2022), Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic (2020); and the forthcoming alternate World War II horror anthology, Combat Monsters.