Separated at death: a bill hawley undertaking

by Leo Axler

The sleuthing undertaker Bill Hawley takes on his most challenging--and disturbing--case yet when a disinternment reveals an extra body in the coffin. From the author of Double Plot, Final Viewing and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 042515257X
• ISBN13: 9780425152577
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting character/premise

This is a murder mystery series where the main character is a funeral director, with a private eye license. His partner/sidekick is a crusty old retired cop who wears plaid pants and coke-bottle glasses, but is tough as nails. The mystery begins when a casket is exhumed for cremation, and a woman's severed head is found in someone else's casket. The story is humorous and offbeat, taking us from midnight mausoleum raids to a "war" of medieval knights/reenactors. I'm giving it 4 stars because the story sometimes seemed a little chaotic, and the main character seems a little too flaky to be convincing as a real funeral director. But this was an enjoyable read and I plan to seek out other books in this series.