Overview
Undertakers know a lot of things... Carrie Lisbon knows how to dress a body, what kinds of flowers to use in funerary tributes, and which embalming preparations are best. What she doesn't know is how to navigate the social strata of Hope Bridge, the small town she now calls home. Looking to escape the outdated and elaborate turn of the century mourning rituals that do nothing but fuel her anger about her husband's passing, Carrie moves to a village dominated by a rickety covered bridge, a social scene bent on keeping the status quo, and a sense of lawlessness that undermines her frail equilibrium. When she's called to lay out the body of a young woman, Carrie discovers brutal injuries that contradict the husband's story about his wife's death. Instead of being accepted as a professional, and as someone who knows what she's talking about, she's rebuffed by the town's undertaker, dismissed by the sheriff, and pursued by the dead woman's husband. Desperate to clear a friend of murder, Carrie finds few leads, but uncovers Hope Bridge's sadistic family secrets. Thwarted by ambiguity and indifference, she struggles with a dubious telephone system, her newcomer status, and multiple town intrigues in order to gain her place and catch a killer.
Full Product Details
Author: Chris Keefer
Publisher: Level Best Books
Imprint: Level Best Books
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.367kg
ISBN: 9781685121884
ISBN 10: 1685121888
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 11 October 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Fast-paced but rich in historical detail and featuring a bold woman establishing herself in the male-dominated field of mortuary practices, No Comfort for the Undertaker is a wonderful mystery debut. - Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Gary Earl Ross, author of the Nickel City Mysteries with PI Gideon Rimes If victims of crimes could choose, they would ask to be laid out by Chris Keefer's beguiling central character, Carrie Lisbon, a spunky undertaker preparing corpses in 1900. Readers will race through the novel, admiring Carrie and her creator every step of the way. - Marlie Wasserman, author of The Murderess Must Die
"""Fast-paced but rich in historical detail and featuring a bold woman establishing herself in the male-dominated field of mortuary practices, No Comfort for the Undertaker is a wonderful mystery debut."" - Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Gary Earl Ross, author of the Nickel City Mysteries with PI Gideon Rimes ""If victims of crimes could choose, they would ask to be laid out by Chris Keefer's beguiling central character, Carrie Lisbon, a spunky undertaker preparing corpses in 1900. Readers will race through the novel, admiring Carrie and her creator every step of the way."" - Marlie Wasserman, author of The Murderess Must Die"
Author Information
Chris Keefer was a newspaper columnist for twenty years, has numerous magazine articles to her credit, and currently writes creative non-fiction essays, local history articles, and the Carrie Lisbon historical mystery series. She lives in upstate New York, and enjoys birding, gardening, metal detecting, cycling, town historian duties, and a grandchild. Readers can visit with her online at authorchriskeefer.com.
