MYSTERY

The Mourning Bells: A Lady of Ashes Mystery

by Christine Trent

Kensington. 2015. 432p. ISBN 9781617736438. pap. $15; ebk. ISBN 9781617736445. M

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Victorian undertaker Violet Harper is not prepared for bodies to rise from the dead. Always skeptical of the newfangled fad of safety coffins—equipped with literal bells and whistles the mistakenly buried person can ring—Violet reevaluates her position after several corpses turn out to be live bodies. With the help of her visiting daughter, Susanna, she investigates her own profession with unsettling results in this thrilling fourth installment (after 2014's Stolen Remains).

Reviewed by Jordan Foster , Apr 01, 2015

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