BODY LANGUAGE- AK Turner- lifestyle/forensic
“ THE DEAD CAN TALK - WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN .”
Cassie Raven is a mortuary assistant having turned her life around thanks to a
chance meeting of a former teacher from being on the streets and a drug fueled
life. She is talented and has insights sometimes where the pathologists are stumped-
something some are rather put out by. When a body arrives and it is her old teacher
Mrs E she wants to treat it with the very greatest of respect as she does every
body but she also wonders how Geraldine E got there- she was healthy and not
that elderly. A little digging and she finds that Geraldine had a fiance- someone
neither they or the funeral directors have heard from, only her estranged alcoholic
son. I really enjoyed this to the point of almost racing through it- I say almost as
I was enjoying it so much I wanted to savour it. Despite the subject matter (and
I find pathology/forensic medicine very interesting) it made me smile- Cassie
has a certain “ je ne sais quoi” about her, that certain something in her attitude
to life and death and someone you would want as a friend. This is almost a cozy
crime mystery- there is that warm familiarity and nothing to put you off your
dinner (other than the odd “ brain in formaldehyde ” mention of autopsy type
thing). A wonderful read, an excellent plot, one I thoroughly enjoyed.
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A.K. Turner's first foray into crime fiction was a detective thriller trilogy, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, following the adventures of Janusz Kiszka, a fixer to London's Polish community. All three books won critical acclaim and were twice optioned as a possible TV series. In her other life as a TV producer and writer, A.K. makes documentaries and drama-docs on subjects as diverse as the Mutiny on the Bounty, the sex lives of Neanderthals, and Monty Don's Italian Gardens.
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