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Hopefully someplace warm.īut like I always did, I immediately dismissed the thought. All the while I would be starting a new life. But eventually the people who’d watched me grow up would only have passing thoughts about that Grave’s girl whose parents killed themselves. Sure my friends would miss me for awhile. I didn’t have any family to worry over my disappearance. Not for the first time, the thought entered my mind that it wouldn’t be so terrible if I just packed a bag and left everything behind me without a word to anyone. I’d been wide awake for more than an hour, thinking of my family, what was left of my legacy, and how much my life in general sucked.

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My toes wiggled and fought for release beneath the nubby covers I’d tucked under the mattress too tightly, and goosebumps spread across the top of my skull and tightened the skin so much that it felt as if the follicles might snap off. My bedroom so cold white puffs of breath clouded above my face every time I exhaled because I couldn’t afford to crank the heater above 65 degrees. Alone in my bed in the middle of the night.

Well, tarnishing it any more than it already was. In all actuality, I was strong-armed into taking the position out of a sense of duty to the community and the guilt of tarnishing my family’s good name. Graves, in a moment of temporary insanity, volunteered for the job. The mayor’s decision to be more fiscally conservative left King George County without a coroner. The bad thing about it was I had a shitload of student loans to pay back and not a lot of income.Īhh, my life was simple before the budget cuts. The good thing about owning a funeral home in Bloody Mary was that hardly anyone ever died, despite the rather macabre name. I had little choice but to resign my job at the hospital, pack my bags and move back to Bloody Mary, Virginia-population 2,902. The only thing I had left of them was the crumbling old Victorian I grew up in and Graves Funeral Home-believe me, it was a hell of a legacy. It was because of my parents that I’d had an impromptu career change. My parents died early last year, and the gossip and scandal involved would have broken someone with a lesser constitution, but I’d managed to hold my head up. Well, technically, I was a doctor, but I preferred to be one for the living.

I never wanted to take over the family funeral parlor. It mostly happened when I was preparing a body in the middle of the night instead of snuggled up next to someone warm with a pulse. I mean, who wanted to date a woman who drained blood on a regular basis and whose scent of choice was embalming fluid? I thought I’d be proud to carry on the family legacy, but that was before I knew the job would be hell on my social life. Look out Janet Evanovich, here comes Liliana Hart! …įourth generation mortician. I think readers will love the open and upfront heroine, even though it turns out that she has a secret or two, just like everyone else in Bloody Mary, Virginia. and Jack’s story isn’t really finished and I can’t wait until the next part of that story becomes available. I have already put it on my favorites list and plan to go back and re-read it in the near future. While chortling through some of the dialogue I ended reading some of it out loud to my hubby who laughed right along with me. … I simply couldn’t stop reading this novel. They discover each victim had a shocking secret, and the very foundation of J.J.’s life is in danger of crumbling when it turns out she’s harboring secrets of her own-secrets that make her the perfect victim in a deadly game. It only clouds the issue and puts her reputation on the line when the attraction between them spirals out of control. has to decide if he might be going above and beyond the call of duty to create the spine tinglers he’s so well known for.

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The residents of Blood Mary are dropping like flies, and when a popular mystery writer shows up on J.J.’s doorstep with plans of writing his new book about the Bloody Mary Serial Killer, J.J. and her best friend, Detective Jack Lawson, to bring the victim justice.

When a grisly murder is discovered in the small town of Bloody Mary, it’s up to J.J.

She’s not only in the mortuary business, but she’s also the coroner for King George County, Virginia. Graves has seen a lot of dead bodies in her line of work…