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|title=The Graveyard Position

|sort=Graveyard Position

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=288

|publisher=Allison & Busby

|date=September 2005

|isbn=0749082402

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The teenage Merlyn Cantelo left Leeds twenty years ago at the insistence of his Aunt Clarissa, a clairvoyant, who had foreseen violent danger to him from within the Cantelo family. She'd told everyone that he'd disappeared in Asia. In actual fact he was being educated in Italy. He's not welcomed back into the family with open arms though, as his reappearance means that some who were expecting a decent inheritance after Clarissa's death will be disappointed. Merlyn has to delve into the murky history of the Cantelo family to find out who is threatening him.

Barnard makes good use of the city of Leeds and its suburbs. This novel is mainly set in Kirkstall and if, like me, you know the area well you will recognise a lot of street names and landmarks. I struggled with Merlyn through the traffic of Leeds city centre and I know the hotel where he was staying. This increased my enjoyment of the book, but the plot isn't dependent on the location and you can still enjoy the novel without knowing Leeds at all.

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