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According to the book
description of The Body in the Hole: Book
One of the Undertaker Series Paperback,
"Someone dumped a body in an open grave at the
cemetery, and the undertaker isn't happy about
it. But he isn't happy about the police trying
to solve it, either. In fact, the undertaker
tries to solve it himself. The undertaker’s
name is Yvgeny, and Yvgeny is an unlikeable and
morally ambiguous Sherlock Holmes aficionado
who lives with his mother in a mortuary in
middle-Georgia. He wears Victorian era dress
and speaks with a Polish accent. Don’t let
Yvgeny’s career choice scare you away from the
story- while some of Yvgeny’s antics will make
you cringe, there is nothing gory or violent.
The story begins with Yvgeny preparing for a
funeral. He gets annoyed when he discovers
someone dumped a body into a grave he had dug
for someone else. Always looking for a way to
make an extra buck, he hauls the body back to
his office to inspect. After filching a nice
watch, he calls the police. Of course, Yvgeny
doesn’t like the police, and he eventually
decides to solve the crime himself. With his
love for Sherlock Holmes and inflated ego, he
estimates his chances of solving the crime are
far higher than those of the detectives. Yvgeny
teams up with a motley assortment of not always
like-minded characters in this small Georgia
town, trying to stay one step ahead as the
detectives close in. The local talent includes
the mentally deficient one-eyed owner of the
army-navy surplus store and the local
doctor/deputy coroner who is a recovering
hippie with a Tom Selleck fetish. In the middle
of everything, Yvgeny falls for the crude and
vulgar granddaughter of an old man buried in
his cemetery. She is turned off by his bizarre
fashion and strange interests, but Yvgeny is
persistent. Will he solve the crime? Will he
get the girl? Read and find out! |
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According to the book
description of Death and Repair,
Michael Hart would do anything to bring
her back. Fate took her away from him,
then, years later, fate pushes him to the
town of Malway, a town with a secret.
Michael, a retired policeman, believes he
has stumbled across a crime, but soon
discovers it is something far more
incredible, something that could make his
one wish come true. But it might come
with a terrible price. Death and Repair
explores the power of love and the
permanence of death. It is a
re-imagination of the classic Djinn
tales, part mystery, part
science-fiction, part love story. |
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