I very much enjoyed reading this book. The main character Cassie struggles to feel like she fits in with society, after losing both her parents when she was a small girl, she has been brought up by her Polish Grandmother. Cassie has always felt that her Grandmother has been withholding the details surrounding her parents death but can not ask her about it.
Cassie very much enjoys her job as a mortuary technician, this is the one place she can truly feel that she belongs, she finds that she has an ability to listen to the dead when she touches them, usually just a fleeting message, this is the case when her best friend and mentor Mrs E is brought in the the mortuary, Cassie is distraught at the loss of Mrs E, but feels that it is the right thing to do to be able to care for her in death. There is mystery surrounding Mrs. E's death, she was a fit and healthy middle aged woman, there is no plausible reason for her to be laid out on a cold table in front of Cassie, when Cassie hears a message in her head from Mrs. E, Cassie knows that there has been a wrongdoing against Mrs. E.
Cassie tries to make the police listen, but Det. Flyte already appears to have made up her mind as to what might have happened, she seems to have an arrogance about her but also mystery, a sadness.
Cassie goes about looking into the case herself and soon finds herself completely involved in the case and yet she must solve it for the memory of Mrs. E.
An excellent twist and revelation at the end of the book, very recommendable!
Cassie very much enjoys her job as a mortuary technician, this is the one place she can truly feel that she belongs, she finds that she has an ability to listen to the dead when she touches them, usually just a fleeting message, this is the case when her best friend and mentor Mrs E is brought in the the mortuary, Cassie is distraught at the loss of Mrs E, but feels that it is the right thing to do to be able to care for her in death. There is mystery surrounding Mrs. E's death, she was a fit and healthy middle aged woman, there is no plausible reason for her to be laid out on a cold table in front of Cassie, when Cassie hears a message in her head from Mrs. E, Cassie knows that there has been a wrongdoing against Mrs. E.
Cassie tries to make the police listen, but Det. Flyte already appears to have made up her mind as to what might have happened, she seems to have an arrogance about her but also mystery, a sadness.
Cassie goes about looking into the case herself and soon finds herself completely involved in the case and yet she must solve it for the memory of Mrs. E.
An excellent twist and revelation at the end of the book, very recommendable!