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"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.

Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the...

For three decades, The Undertaker stood as a titan of professional wrestling, a supernatural force who captured the imagination of fans worldwide. This book chronicles the unparalleled career of the Deadman, offering an in-depth look at the matches, the moments, and the mythos that created a legend. From his most glorious triumphs to his most baffling creative directions, this is the definitive story of one of wrestling's most enduring icons. Explore the most celebrated achievement in WWE history: The Undertaker's legendary undefeated streak at Wrestlemania. Relive every victory, from his ...

The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community...until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local town folk. The thing began to happen. Strange things...horrible, unspeakable things...in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery.

If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this audiobook, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. Is it really true, he asks, that everything in science points towards atheism? Has science buried God? God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Once again, 17-year-old Riley Smith is the new kid in school and her dad's career has her back to being dubbed a freak. Truth is, she's a much bigger freak than her classmates think. The only company she keeps these days is the dead who follow Dad home from work. She can see them. She can speak to them. And Fate seems to think she can help them solve their last problems, so that they can move on to the other side. Which is odd, because with the loss of her mother and her father's alcoholism, she's got enough problems of her own.

A thrilling novel from #1 international bestselling author Sara Blaedel, author of The Forgotten Girls "One of the best I've come across." -- Michael Connelly "Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with. She's a remarkable crime writer who time and again delivers a solid, engaging story that...

Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husband. In a single, brutal instant she became a widow, a victim, and a hero. Yet disturbing questions remain. What secrets did the man who started his fortune running mortuaries keep that might have cost him his life?

On Dee Branch’s first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to leave “for just a minute”—and he came back to the car with a corpse. Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming...

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

The Cleaves family gather in a small country churchyard for their son's funeral. But they don't recognize the dead man in the coffin. Detective Inspector Ravenscroft is alarmed by the behavior of the Upton Undertakers. What are they hiding? And who killed this man? Then another member of the Cleaves family is found dead. Ravenscroft begins to suspect something grisly is afoot—could someone be involved in body snatching?

I’m a ghost. A specter, some would say. A spirit. A shade, the hallucination of a compromised mind. Whatever moniker you prefer, that’s me. Excepting that last one. Uncle MortonI ran freight and wagon trains for years from Missouri to Santa Fe. Courted death from arrows to snake bites, drowning to dysentery, each and every trip. Came through all that only to be dealt a bad hand in Deadwood. Got myself killed.

In 1955 a black Funeral Director in a small southern town was brutally murdered – a white policeman is suspected of committing the crime. However, despite a confession and lots of simple clues…nothing happens. A book was written and a movie made about the murder, using fiction to dress the truth. Now you can finally read the actual story and facts surrounding the murder of an undertaker – a real Murder in Humboldt.

Author Loren D. Estleman has won four Golden Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, as well as the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is also a Pulitzer Prize nominee. In Undertaker's Wife, he pens a dramatic tale set in the early 1900s about a retired undertaker, Richard Connable, and his wife, Lucy. In order to save the country from financial disaster, Richard must disguise the suicide of one of the most preeminent financiers.

Unmasking the Kremlin's Secrets: A High-Stakes Game in London Chauncey Brightspeed isn't your average London cabbie. Beneath the veneer of a nocturnal driver lies "The Undertaker," a CIA spy catcher on loan to MI5 from the CIA.. Fluent in Russian and armed with a photographic memory, Chauncey buries secrets and threats to national security. His current mission? Unearthing a deeply embedded Russian spy ring in the heart of London. In the thrilling opening chapter of The Undertaker: Kremlin's Spy Ring in London, Chauncey navigates the rain-slicked streets, chauffeuring suspected double agents...

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door.

Things get chilling and scary in this thriller where the secret life of an assassin is about to be revealed. Caring and loving family man Jarmo Kivi lives a slow life in the suburbs where he works for a funeral home and actively takes part in his kids' lives and their activities. But Kivi has...

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

What if eternity was just the beginning? Tim Thompson is a young man waiting only to join his entire family in the grave. But when he is hired by a mysterious undertaker business, he learns that many things other than death can happen to him, from meeting and falling for Cyril the outlaw vampire, to being reunited with his relatives after they too emerge from the grave! Undead life is anything but simple, especially when you are the son of an ultra-dominant vampire, and your troublesome little sister has both love and murder on her mind! Opium traffickers, vampire hunters, Japanese ghosts: ...

Nada oculta un secreto más rápido que una tumba recién cavada. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamamiento está enterrando cadáveres bajo otros nombres, y Pete Talbott y Sandy Kasmarek son los siguientes en la lista del enterrador. ¡Excelentes nuevas traducciones! Pete es un informático de Boston que todavía está de luto por su esposa cuando el sicario de la mafia Gino Parini le pone una pistola del calibre 45 y el periódico Columbus Ohio de esa mañana en la cara, abierto por la página de obituarios. El de Pete está ahí, en primer plano, y el de su esposa está al ...