The Cemetery Gang

About the Book

The events of this story occur in a cemetery on Stanley Street, Niagara Falls, Canada. The main characters are five disgruntled, misfit spirits who refuse to accept the fact that they are dead.
They are not fond of each other, but owing to circumstances, they are forced to spend most of their time in each other’s company during their waking hours. They spend most of their time at the Fat Lady’s Tomb, plotting and scheming how to escape their untimely entombment in the cemetery that endeavors to hold them hostage against their wishes due to their misfortune at having arrived their in the first place. Do they escape? Read on and find out.

About the Author

Barbara Jean Rohlehr was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana, South America. She was the seventh child of eight children. Her early education was at the Ursuline Convent School, then at the All ST Scots Elementary School. Secondary education was completed at the Berbice High School where she graduated with the Cambridge School Certificate and later taught school at one of the elementary schools for three years.
She studied nursing at the University College of the West Indies and graduated as a state-registered nurse. She later immigrated to Canada where she worked in Montreal at the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital as a state-registered nurse.
She later served in West Africa as a volunteer nurse, working with Canadian University Services Overseas in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and serving with Oxfam, Save the Children, and Catholic Relief, spending a period of five years.
She returned home and spent several years breeding and specializing in exotic birds. Barbara is married, has one son and grandson, and is retired and continues to write short stories.