Jennifer’s life is at a low point. She has recently divorced and is forced into selling her home in the D.C. area. And politics being what it is, she can’t find a job because her husband not only humiliated her by leaving her for her kids’ nanny, his position as an aide for a well-known senator has turned her into a leper to everyone in the area. So when she discovers that her great-uncle has died and left her his family business, she leaps at the opportunity to travel to Mt. Dora, Florida, and check it out. Of course, her enthusiasm flags when she discovers the nature of the business – it’s a mortuary. And it comes complete with a resident mortician.
There’s a reason this book is a Christy Award finalist. It’s fun and entertaining and well-written. I enjoyed getting to know Jennifer and her family, and I was fascinated by the glimpse into a business about which I knew nothing. As any good book does, by the time I closed the back cover I felt like I had been to Mt. Dora. And I attended a couple of really cool funerals, too. I can’t wait for the next book in this series.
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