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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It was ok. I thought I was enjoying the twist in the cell at the end- but the she ruined it. Fairly formulaic ( ) Review: The Mortician’s Daughter by Elizabeth Bloom. This book was a great story but I would have thought there was going to be a story about a mortician’s daughter growing up in a mortuary with her parents. Right off the story began with Ginny whose father was a mortician which ends there and is taken another path to Ginny being a NYC cop who is suspended and being investigated for abiding in a crime. This is where the story goes to her home town in Massachusetts to help her best friend, Sonya find out who brutally beat her nineteen-year-old son to death. A confession was brought forth by a homeless Vet, so the town closed the case but Ginny for some reason thought he was belittled to confess and new he would not last locked up in a cell. Ginny’s intuition was right and within two days the homeless man hung himself in the cell. Ginny didn’t stop there; she went on investigating the case which made a few people in town wanted her gone. During the story there were three attempts on her Ginny’s life. Its great writing, good characters, and the story is unpredictable. What kept me interested was that there was one event after another. I just think the cover and title of the book was misleading. The Mortician's Daughter introduces Ginny Lavoie, the epoynmous heroine who is also a disgraced New York city cop. Ginny returns to her small Massachusetts home town following the death of her best friend’s son. Daniel, the best friend’s 19-year old son, was brutally beaten and Sonya, Daniel’s mother, cannot imagine why anyone would have done something so horrible to her son. The local cops have accepted the confession of a local homeless vet and have closed the case. Sonya doesn’t believe this is the case and she asks Ginny to investigate. Ginny hasn’t been home in 10 years, since the death of her mother. Her return home finds her encountering long-lost friends, including Jimmy Griffin, her high school sweetheart. Jimmy now runs the family business, a wonderful bakery called “Molly’s”. The mystery plot is very compelling, and the characters are very well drawn. Bloom does a great job creating the atmosphere of this once-booming mill town and its working class inhabitants, as in this description of the local churches: “Some towns had one Catholic church; Ginny’s had four. They all had proper saints’ names, but they were known by the ethnicity of the immigrants that founded them: Italian, Irish, English, French. But Danny’s funeral was held in the next town over, because that’s where the Polish church was.” no reviews | add a review
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