Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all. But this is the first time she’s come face to face with someone she knows on the slab. Someone she cared about. Her friend and mentor, Mrs E.
Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cassie senses that there must be more to the ruling of an accidental death. Is her grief making her see things that aren’t there, or is her intuition right, and there’s something more sinister to her friend’s death than the ME thinks? Harbouring an innate distrust of the police, Cassie sets out to investigate and deliver justice to the woman who saved her life.
Body Language is a cleverly plotted mystery, with a pair of engaging characters in mortuary technician Cassie Raven and the very uptight DS Phyllida Flyte. The two couldn’t be more different, and the interplay between them as they both strive to solve the various deaths really drives this book along.
I loved Cassie – pierced, tattooed goth living with her Polish grandma (another fabulous character), a cynical loner with a distrust of the police who works with the dead, and with an intuitive ability to hear the dead’s last thoughts. Diametrically opposite, we have DS Phyllida Flyte. Immaculately turned out, very process-driven and logical. It was fascinating watching the two bounce off each other before they start working together.
Cassie is shocked to find her former teacher and mentor Mrs E turns up at the mortuary. She was responsible for helping Cassie off the streets and through education into the job she now loves. Cassie has to try and discover what happened – was it natural causes, or something more sinister?
Body Language is a well-written and neatly plotted crime fiction story which I read over the course of an afternoon. I enjoyed it enormously, and highly recommend it.
Body Language by A.K. Turner is published by Zaffre, and is out now.
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I’m intrigued, thanks for sharing your thoughts
I hope that you enjoy it if you get a copy!