The Undead Mr. Tenpenny by Tammie Painter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This author came recommended to me by my favorite humorous-mystery-fantasy writer (it’s a thing. Trust me), Kim M. Watt. I think I bought the book on sale (Kindle) and it took me a while to get to it.
Well, I loved it. It’s a little crazy, mixes up magic with the modern world, lots of humor, there’s a running mystery and a found family trope wrapping everything in a big cozy hug. This is the first one in a series of five books and I already have the second lined up.
Cassie, the main character, works at a funeral home as an illegal make-up artist (just read it and you’ll understand). Her life is pretty miserable and unexciting until the day the dead body in the morgue gets up in the middle of a make-up session and walks away… Cassie’s life will never be the same.
For the romance lovers like me, there’s a tiny hint of romance (hopefully developing in later books) with a lot of question marks keeping the two apart. I loved her developing relationship with people she had never met and whom she thought she would hate and see her grow from an almost self-loathing state of mind to one of much more confidence and hope.
Highly recommend it (and while you’re on it sign-up to the author’s funny newsletter).
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