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"Wry, witty and garnished with sharply observed local color: Scott at his best." "--Kirkus Reviews, " starred review ""Ben Abbott, the realtor with the nose of a shamus (McMansion, 2007, etc.), returns to investigate skullduggery among the dead. Snooty Newbury, Conn., has been burying people in the village cemetery for 300 years, but this corpse is different. In life it was Brian Grose, slick operator, world-class egotist and owner -- better say perpetrator -- of a gaudy eyesore of a mausoleum locals have dubbed McTomb. As the result of three well-placed bullets, McTomb is about to be occupied earlier than foreseen. Irked by negative publicity, the trustees of Newbury's Cemetery Association decide that it's time for real-estate agent Ben to dust off his private-eye license and do what the police can't. Given the unpleasant nature of the departed, the list of those eager to see Grose in hallowed ground is predictably long. It includes the husbands of seduced wives, the wives themselves, a selection of chagrined business associates and the cheated Ecuadoran illegal favored by the cops, a man who might have felt an irresistible need for payback. Ben buckles down to sort it all out, but once he does, he realizes something else needs sorting: the question of ""what was right and what was wrong"" -- and what he's required to do about it. Wry, witty and garnished with sharply observed local color: Scott at his best."" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Ben Abbott, the realtor with the nose of a shamus (McMansion, 2007, etc.), returns to investigate skullduggery among the dead. Snooty Newbury, Conn., has been burying people in the village cemetery for 300 years, but this corpse is different. In life it was Brian Grose, slick operator, world-class egotist and owner -- better say perpetrator -- of a gaudy eyesore of a mausoleum locals have dubbed McTomb. As the result of three well-placed bullets, McTomb is about to be occupied earlier than foreseen. Irked by negative publicity, the trustees of Newbury's Cemetery Association decide that it's time for real-estate agent Ben to dust off his private-eye license and do what the police can't. Given the unpleasant nature of the departed, the list of those eager to see Grose in hallowed ground is predictably long. It includes the husbands of seduced wives, the wives themselves, a selection of chagrined business associates and the cheated Ecuadoran illegal favored by the cops, a man who might have felt an irresistible need for payback. Ben buckles down to sort it all out, but once he does, he realizes something else needs sorting: the question of "what was right and what was wrong" -- and what he's required to do about it. Wry, witty and garnished with sharply observed local color: Scott at his best." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Praise for Mausoleum... "Wry, witty and garnished with sharply observed local color: Scott at his best." -Kirkus Reviews starred review When a gaudy, half-million-dollar mausoleum invades the 300-year-old village cemetery in Newbury, Connecticut, realtor Ben Abbott is not happy. Newcomer Brian Grose's enormous, mirror-polished eruption of eternal ego sticks out in the peaceful burying ground like a McMansion in an apple orchard. Ben's fellow drinkers at the bar have nicknamed the monstrosity, "McTomb." But no one expected to find Brian's body locked in his mausoleum, 50 years ahead of schedule. Then Homeland Security Immigration Criminal Enforcement agents (ICE) descend on Newbury hunting for Charlie Cubrero, an illegal immigrant farmhand-and supposed gang leader-who bought a gun after he was stiffed for 50 bucks by Brian Grose. Ben Abbott doesn't buy it. Half the town was in the graveyard celebrating Newbury's tercentennial when Brian was shot, and most of them were mad at him. Besides, Ben admires the hard-working Charlie. And he fears the news that the illegal worked for the Village Cemetery Association will destroy the venerable society already torn asunder by suing and countersuing anti-mausoleum traditionalists and pro-mausoleum insurgents. Justin Scott has written 25 thrillers and mystery novels, under his own name and several pen names, one of them Paul Garrison. He was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America, and is a member of the Adams Round Table. He lives and writes in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards. seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com

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