Cart No 23

A shopping cart in a parking lot. No engine. No driver. No mercy.Greendale County, North Carolina. GreenLeaf Grocery, Route 9. Cart No. 23 sits alone in the far corner of the parking lot - gray steel wire, black plastic handle, one front wheel that pulls stubbornly to the left. There is no reason for anyone to look at it twice.But something lives inside it.The spirit of Sandra Faulkner - a store employee killed by her husband in the summer of 1998 - has found a home in the metal and wire of a shopping cart. She cannot speak. She cannot leave. But she can move the cart. And she remembers everything.When Cart No. 23 begins dispensing its own brand of justice - confronting an abuser, rescuing a kidnapped child, coercing a stockbroker into donating a quarter of a million dollars to charity - Detective Ava Morales is drawn into the strangest case of her career. The evidence points to a twenty-eight-year-old cold case, a killer hiding behind respectability, and a shopping cart that refuses to stay in its corral."Some people believe in life after death. I believe in life after checkout."A supernatural thriller with the procedural tension of a cold-case investigation, the dark humor of a haunted retail experience, and a cinematic ending you won't see coming.For readers of Stephen King, Grady Hendrix, and Paul Tremblay.