No Comfort for the Undertaker

<p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Undertakers know a lot of things... </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Carrie Lisbon knows how to dress a body what kinds of flowers to use in funerary tributes and which embalming preparations are best. What she doesn't know is how to navigate the social strata of Hope Bridge the small town she now calls home. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Looking to escape the outdated and elaborate turn of the century mourning rituals that do nothing but fuel her anger about her husband's passing Carrie moves to a village dominated by a rickety covered bridge a social scene bent on keeping the status quo and a sense of lawlessness that undermines her frail equilibrium. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>When she's called to lay out the body of a young woman Carrie discovers brutal injuries that contradict the husband's story about his wife's death. Instead of being accepted as a professional and as someone who knows what she's talking about she's rebuffed by the town's undertaker dismissed by the sheriff and pursued by the dead woman's husband. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Desperate to clear a friend of murder Carrie finds few leads but uncovers Hope Bridge's sadistic family secrets. Thwarted by ambiguity and indifference she struggles with a dubious telephone system her newcomer status and multiple town intrigues in order to gain her place and catch a killer. </span></p>