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    Death and Douglas

    By J. W. Ocker

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    Douglas has grown up around the business of death. Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the display room of caskets is an awesome place for hide and seek. It’s business as usual in Douglas’s small New England town. Until one day an incredibly out of the ordinary murder victim is brought to the funeral home. And more startling: others follow.
    On the cusp of Halloween, a serial killer has arrived. And unsatisfied with the small-town investigation, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and it’s quirky people, fascinating yet middle grade–appropriate insider information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusion—Death and Douglas has something for readers young and old.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSky Pony
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781510724624
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    Death and Douglas
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    J. W. Ocker

    J.W. Ocker is the USA Today bestselling and Lowell Thomas– and Edgar Award–winning author of macabre travelogues, spooky kids’ books, and horror novels. His books include Poe-Land, A Season with the Witch, Death and Douglas, and The Smashed Man of Dread End. J.W. Ocker lives in New Hampshire.

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      Pre-tenn Douglas has grown up in the family funeral home. He comes from generations of funeral directors, and while he realizes that some people are bothered by that, he's just a regular kid with a best friend and favorite games like anyone else. He just happens to help his parents with funerals. It isn't until his family's home receives the body of a murder victim, with the letter "M" carved into her cheek, that Douglas feels fear.The real tension doesn't start until 300 pages in, but this is still a quick page-turner. The story is set in a small New England town leading up to Halloween, so lots of Autumn images and an old graveyard, which makes it a good Halloween read.