NICK BROOKS
In a dazzling, dark, and elegantly wicked tale of skeletons in the cupboard, and corpses on the slab, Hugh Madden, a mortician who loves his work and who loves making "sleeping charges" beautiful, finds long-buried secrets from his past beginning to resurface, and his own dissatisfaction with the present threatening to turn murderous when the body of his old medical professor turns up on his slab.