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.