Over Her Dead Body

Over Her Dead Body

Author: H.J. Garbett Listening Length: 13h 51m
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Ruth Watkins is pretending to be a serial killer… Two years ago, Ruth was an ambitious journalist on the trail of a serial killer with a very specific calling card. Then her best friend became the latest victim, and Ruth’s life fell apart. When police shelve the case, Ruth decides there is only one way to force them ...

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THIRTY-SIX

I’d never really imagined what it would feel like, experiencing the funeral directors from this particular perspective. Being there in the lobby, feeling slightly hemmed in by the display coffins, it felt oddly surreal.

I took one last look at the trinkets and traditions Uncle Phil kept on the shelves bordering the visitors’ desk in the lobby, a carefully chosen mix of death accessories and regalia, designed to appeal to the widest range of people who came into the office.

I suppose we all cling to our rituals around death, little distractions from the sobering thought that death is the end because we want their lives to have had meaning, to have had importance.