Grave Concerns

My concerns when I read Dark Undertakings was that a series based around an undertaker was going to get a bit predictable and silly. I'm glad to say that this second in the series wasn't predictable or silly. The author has moved Drew Slocombe on and he now owns his own small business - a natural bu......more

Second in the series about Drew Slocombe, alternative undertaker and amateur sleuth, this finds Drew now having started his eco funeral business and struggling with getting custom. Business is not helped when a body is found buried in his field, and seems to have been buried there while he was still......more

I can honestly say that this was my one and only Rebecca Tope novel, and I only gave it 2 stars because it was a great idea, it just could have been done so much better. The story centres on a body that has been discovered in an alternative burial ground, a body that shouldn't be there. The burial gr......more

A fascinating book. A mystery, a murder and an insight into the funeral industry and in particular ecologically sound burials. Drew, the trainee undertaker, now qualified and with his own business, a multi talented man, once a nurse, competent in the healing arts, an insightful amateur detective, as......more

A good plot for a story , a body in a graveyard that shouldn’t be there and lots of characters and red herrings . But the ex nurse Drew turned detective is I felt becoming creepy . His feelings towards pregnant G are weird especially when his own wife is struggling . He does nothing to help Karen . I......more