Grave Concerns - Softcover
This cemetery's got one corpse too many...With Peaceful Repose Cemetery, Drew Slocombe is determined to revolutionise the entire death industry and make ecologically sound burials a popular choice. Unfortunately, his gravedigger has just discovered that their cemetery has one too many corpses - that of an elderly woman. The police don't appear to be particularly concerned and seem to think it's that of a vagrant. But for Drew things don't add up: even if the woman died a natural death, someone was obviously responsible for burying her. When Genevieve Slater, a woman from Drew's past, turns up at his door, and asks him to help prove that the body is that of her missing mother, the mystery deepens. Why does Genevieve not go to the police with her concerns? All Drew's skills as an amateur detective will be needed if he is to get to the truth...
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REBECCA TOPE is the author of fourteen previous crime novels. She lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, with a full complement of livestock, but manages to travel the world and enjoy civilisation from time to time as well. Most of her varied experiences and activities find their way into her books, sooner or later. For example, bee-keeping, milk recording, spinning, arguing, undertaking and gardening. She is also currently the membership secretary of the Crime Writers' Association.
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This British whodunit features an unusual hero in Drew Slocombe, a former nurse who has become an undertaker and opened an alternative cemetery where he promotes ecologically sound, environmentally friendly (and much cheaper) burials. But just as business is picking up, the body of a woman is found in a shallow grave in an undeveloped part of the cemetery. She wears only a cotton shroud and an unusual necklace, with little else to identify her. When word about the discovery gets around, Drew receives a call from Genevieve Slater, whom Drew met (and was attracted to) when he and his wife wanted to buy the same house as Genevieve and her husband. The contact sets off warning bells for Drew, but when Genevieve offers him 2,000 to find out if the dead woman is her mother, Drew can't resist. Tope's fourth book is competently written, with offbeat characters, an inventive plot, and some biting commentary on the funeral business. A natural pairing with the genre's only other undertaker-sleuth, Tim Cockey's Hitchcock Sewell, although this series is less given to madcap humor. Emily Melton
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- PublisherPiatkus Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0749932317
- ISBN 13 9780749932312
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages338
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light readng creases, remainder line across base of reading block, light foxing to endpapers and edges of readng block. ; First printing of Piatkus mass market edition, 12001. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design uncredited. ; 352 pages; Drew Slocombe was surprised when he decided to start a natural burial service that someone had already beat him to it. On the site of his new Peaceful Repose Cemetery a body is discovered. The Police don't seem concerned and assume that the old woman was a vagrant. But Drew isn't convinced, even if she'd died a natural death, someone had to have buried her. The mystery deepens when Genieve Slater turns up on his door and wants him to play detective. She wants to find out if the body might be that of her mother, and she doesn't want the police involved. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 27179
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