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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
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.
64) The world is a wedding: in which the unexpected nature of reality surprises Mister Wilfred Price
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!"--
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Series
Barry Clayton mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"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...
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Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble." "A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone into hiding - and she's taken his ever-vivacious ex-wife, Julia, with her. Enlisting the help of a lovably rumpled private eye who is in the midst of a midlife crisis, Hitch's search for his friends and...
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Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who grew up in the funeral industry, I am uniquely positioned...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"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...
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Series
Bel Barrett mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Middle-aged professor and amateur sleuth Bel Barrett gets more than she had bargained for after agreeing to teach Vinnie Vallone's Funeral Services class the art of writing, when Vinnie turns up dead, the victim of foul play, and one of his students, a born-again ex-con, becomes the prime suspect
74) The loved one
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
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.
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Series
Rip through time volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"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...
77) Bless your heart
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Series
Evans Funeral Parlor volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with ... normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny--Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
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...