Body Language

by A.K. Turner · 2023

Cassie Raven, a 25‑year‑old morgue technician in Camden, spends her days preparing bodies and listening for the silent clues they leave behind. With a gothic style, piercings, tattoos and a past that includes drug‑addiction and street‑life, she has fought hard to become a respected mortuary assistant. When the corpse of Geraldine Edwards—her former maths teacher who rescued Cassie from the streets—arrives on the slab, the coroner rules it an accidental drowning. Cassie senses a darker truth and, trusting her uncanny ability to hear the dead, launches her own investigation. Pitted against a skeptical police inspector and haunted by the possibility that the dead may indeed be speaking, she must untangle a web of secrets before the killer strikes again.