The fascinatingly by the book DS Phyllida Flyte is the chalk to the cheese of Cassie Raven. Its got a array of characters, some alive – some dead.
A K’s previous series, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, starred a London-based Polish fixer who’s happy to crack heads to solve crimes – which saw her being selected for Val McDermid‘s prestigious New Blood Panel at Harrogate Crime Festival in 2012. And just for light relief she is training to be a City of London guide…īody Language, introduces a new kind of forensic heroine – a crime-solving Goth-girl mortuary technician who talks to the dead, a character first launched in two crime shorts aired on BBC Radio 4. Her day job is producing TV documentaries on true crime and science topics. Turner spins science into spellbinding storytelling, Val McDermidĪ K (aka Ali) lives in East London where she is writing more mortuary-set mysteries. Is her grief making her see things that aren’t there? Or is her intuition right, and there’s something more sinister to Mrs E’s death than the ME thinks? Harbouring an innate distrust of the police, Cassie sets out to investigate the death and deliver justice for the woman who saved her life.Ī. With Mrs E.’s evasive son demanding the release of his mother’s body, Cassie knows that time is running out to find answers. The woman who acted as a second mother to the orphaned Cassie.ĭeeply 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. Geraldine Edwards, the teacher responsible for her returning to education after she got ensnared in a life of drugs. But this is the first time she’s come face to face with someone she knew on the slab. Ĭamden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all.
THE DEAD CAN TALK – WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN.
My thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive readers for asking me to join this blog tour for Body Language by A.K.
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