REVIEWS
(Book Due Out February 2001)

"Wisecracking undertaker and amateur sleuth Hitchcock Sewell makes a welcome return in this second in Cockey’s highly entertaining and well-written series…this thoroughly enjoyable novel…should attract readers who enjoy Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series, while (Cockey’s) breezy, casual tone, hilarious situations, very quirky, sharply drawn characters and neighborhoods will appeal to fans of Janet Evanovich.”
  Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

> "A mortician-sleuth? Yes, it's a screwball premise, but there's never a shortage of dead bodies in Cockey's second Hearse novel...The plot unwinds in a pleasingly complex fashion, but the focus here is on bittersweet comedy rather than intricate puzzle-solving. Hitch has a bit of Lawrence Block's Bernie Rodenbarr in him; both are unwilling sleuths and waggish narrators, irreverently describing  the follies around them...The blue-collar Baltimore ambience provides just the right backdrop for a comedy series that has definitely come into its own"
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