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61) Pinebox Collins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jonathan Collins is a relatively young man when he loses a leg in the Civil War, but he quickly learns to cope. He carves his own wooden leg, then he turns his skills to making coffins and, finally, undertaking. Since both trades are best plied where there's a constant need, he sets up shop in violent towns, and in one of those towns he meets Wild Bill Hickock. These towns are no place for a lonely man, so Jon, now nicknamed "Pinebox," relocates...
Author
Series
Gravediggers ; 1
Publisher
Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Deacon Tucker is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows he's alive, and he'll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for God's sake, don't ever fall in love. That's a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man can't be brought back...
Author
Series
Buryin' Barry ; 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After moving to the Appalachian mountains to manage his ailing father's funeral home, ex-cop Barry Clayton unearths the skeleton of a murdered man, whose wallet contains a photograph of Barry's girlfriend, while moving a grave.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001?], 1995.
Language
English
Description
"Stack, Ball and Bulldog arrive at a local funeral parlor to retrieve a lost drug stash held by the mortician Mr. Simms. But Mr. Simms has other plans for the boys. He leads them on a tour of his establishment, introducing them to his corpses. Even the dead have tales to tell, and Mr. Simms is willing to tell them all. And you'd better listen--because when you're in his 'hood, even everyday life can lead to extraordinary terror." --
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on behind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets; The biggest rip-offs in the business;...
72) Scared stiff
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Kelly and Chace's parents are morticians, and when one of the bodies comes alive, it's up to the kids to stop him.
73) A ghostly murder
Author
Publisher
Witness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"I told you I was sick, reads the headstone above Mamie Sue Preston's grave. She was the richest woman in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, and also the biggest hypochondriac. Ironic, considering someone killed her--and covered it up perfectly. And how does Emma Lee, proprietor of the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home, know all this? Because Mamie Sue's ghost told her, that's how. And she's offering big bucks to find the perp. The catch is, Mamie Sue was buried...
Author
Publisher
Witness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from 'funeral trauma'. It's trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne--innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee's granny--she's adamant that she didn't just fall down those stairs. She was pushed. Ruthie has no idea who wanted her pushing up daisies. All she knows is that she...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Cody, a gypsy logger, moves in with Ryan, the local undertaker, after Cody steers his truck--with the severed body of his partner snowpacked to his plow-onto Ryan's front lawn. Later they discover the mysterious secrets of their New Hampshire neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Gotham
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Six Feet Under" meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore. Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in the funeral home, and soon has the run of the place, from...
78) Good mourning
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City{u2019}s Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving. It{u2019}s Gossip Girl meets Six Feet Under, told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned...
Author
Series
Buryin' Barry ; 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!"--
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