Berthoud Community Library District

Recounts how the author struggled to retain her optimism in spite of her father's sexual abuse, her mother's abandonment, and her siblings' betrayals; her morbid fascination with a local funeral business that led to her job as a hearse driver; and the insecurities that have overshadowed her survival.

This comedy of manners follows newlyweds Wilfred Price and Flora Myffanwy as they navigate married life, while Wilfred and his first wife, Grace, try to manage secrets from their shared past.

Riley Smith, whose new classmates think she is a freak because of her father's profession, must deal with ghosts who believe she can help them move on, including a young woman whose death was not accidental and an appealing boy her age.

"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...

When an unexpected blizzard dumps the body of a murdered waitress, along with the snow, on the steps of Sewell & Sons funeral home, undertaker and amateur sleuth Hitchcock Sewell races against time--and the media--to find the killer.

"Violet Harper and her husband Sam are attending the long-anticipated opening of Egypts new Suez Canal. The canal is the mastermind of the brilliant French engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps. Fireworks, galas, and canal cruises are all part of the planned festivities at ports along the way. Tensions abound across the various European delegations in attendance. The Prussians, Dutch, French, British, Austrians, and Russians all have political grievances...

A bemused would-be poet gets himself entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician. Also includes a featurette: Trying to Offend Everyone.

"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...

Nick Graves has had a life full of more death than any man can handle. Graves has dealt death as well--as an outlaw, running with some of the most feared gunslingers in the West. Now he's ready to turn his back on his dark past and live out his existence back in the family business--as a mourner, paid to see to the details of funerals and wakes. Nick wants to settle down, but a man's past has a way of staying with him. And soon he crosses paths with...