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    The Custodian of the Body
    The Custodian of the Body
    The Custodian of the Body
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    The Custodian of the Body

    By Kathleen Marple Kalb

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    A new widow, Christian Shaw, stumbles on a murder while planning her husband's funeral, and ends up using her unique expertise as a historian to help catch the killer.

     

    The title, and key phrase, stuck in the author's mind when she was making final arrangements for her mother, eventually inspiring this story—and her mystery-fan mother would have loved that.   

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Cat Weekly
    Release dateMay 28, 2023
    ISBN9781479467228
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      The Custodian of the Body - Kathleen Marple Kalb

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      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      THE CUSTODIAN OF THE BODY, by Kathleen Marple Kalb

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 2023 by Kathleen Marple Kalb.

      Original publication by Wildside Press, LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      THE CUSTODIAN OF THE BODY,

      by Kathleen Marple Kalb

      An OLD STUFF MYSTERY

      Burying my husband was bad enough. Catching a killer in the process was a bit much, even for me, but you can’t un-see stuff, and you can’t un-know it either.

      I understood that long before I was a client of Grolier’s Funeral Home, the place that has been seeing off the good people of Unity, Connecticut, for the better part of a century and a half. I’d been there a few times for wakes with Frank, offering condolences to the families of his mentors at the New Haven Herald who’d succumbed to the usual occupational hazards of journalism: tobacco, whiskey, and sausage pizza.

      I never thought I’d lose him to

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