Dead Load

The trash isn't just piled up. It's holding the ceiling up.

Harlan Jakes is a specialist in the unseen and the unclean. As a forensic cleaner, he has spent a lifetime wading through the wreckage of human lives, but nothing has prepared him for Blackwood Manor. Hired by the cold, enigmatic Elara Muntz, Harlan is given a strict 48-hour deadline to clear the sprawling, rotting estate in rural Pennsylvania before a court order seals it forever.

But as Harlan and his crew-the muscle-bound Rory and...