Monday, November 5, 2018

MOURNING ROUTINE by S.E. Babin


Title:  MOURNING ROUTINE
Series:  The Funeral Fakers #1
Author:  S.E. Babin
Publisher:  Sweet Promise Press
Publish Date:   11.02.2018
Category /Genre:  Cozy Mystery
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from:  Sweet Promise Press (as an ARC gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Mourning Routine
Date completed: 11.01.2018

Description from the publisher:
Kitty Crawford reached for stardom and fell hard.  Now, in desperate need of some way to make ends meet, she skulks back to her hometown of Asheville.  Unfortunately, the employment offers are slim pickings for a has-been whose sole talent is being able to cry on cue.

That is, until one odd turn leads to another, which leads to the little-known profession of Personal Mourning.  Here, the better Kitty can fake it, the more dollars she’ll find stacked up in her bereft bank account.  Talk about a role she was born to play!

And townsfolk are just dying to hire her.  Her first gig casts her as the bereaved girlfriend of one newly deceased Chase McCormick, someone she would never have dated in life.  Still, Kitty will have to act like her life depends on it, because—OMG!—it does.

Can she perform an investigation that could turn out to be murder before she gets her own curtain call?  Find out whodunit in this hilarious mystery series filled with fake tears and a very real body count...Order your copy and start reading today!

Mourning Routine is book one in The Funeral Fakers series.  Each book stands completely on its own, but you'll have more fun if you read them all together!
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MOURNING ROUTINE is the first book in the Funeral Fakers series.  I believe they’ll each stand on their own, but that is yet to be seen.

I love Kitty Crawford and Chase McCormick, individually and together.  I hope they make appearances in some of the other books in the series (even though they are each written by different authors).  I want to know more about his mother and her plants!

This story was fun, funny, and unique.  It was also a little twisted and couldn’t avoid a bit of gallows humor.  It made me laugh and cringe at some of the over-the-top antics of people acting as real people do – especially when facing mortality.

I lived in North Carolina for a few years and I had no problem imagining the accents in every one of these voices.  These people exist!

This was an excellent start to the series.  I loved this story and I am looking forward to more from this series.  Not only is it a new series, but it is also a whole group of new-to-me authors and I’m looking forward to reading from each of them.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

 Funeral Fakers Series:
1.      Mourning Routine (S.E. Babin)
2.      Mourning Commute (Sam Cheever)
3.      Mourning Express (K.M. Waller)
4.      Mourning After (Stephanie Damore)
5.      Mourning Star (Ava Mallory)
6.      Mourning Crisis (Carolyn Ridder Aspenson)

Also from S.E. Babin:
·         Plotting Mr. Perfect
·         The Taming of Hermes (Gods of Olympus #1)
·         Wilde Storm (Time Wardens #2)
Bloom & Gloom Mysteries:
1.      Deadly Confections
2.      Trifle of Terror
Deadicated Matchmaker Series:
1.      The Nerdy Necromancer
2.      The Jilted Jinn
3.      The Clumsy Clairvoyant
4.      The Vegan Vamp
Fairytale League Series:
1.      The Hunt for Snow
2.      Snow’s Lament
The Goddess Chronicles Series:
1.      Out of Practice Aphrodite
2.      Out of Sorts Aphrodite
3.      Out of Options Aphrodite
3.5  Out of Chills Aphrodite
3.6  Out of Eggnog Aphrodite
4.      Out of Cake Aphrodite
5.      Out of Sanity Aphrodite
6.      Out of Excuses Aphrodite
7.      Out of Patience Aphrodite
Vikings of Virginia Mysteries:
1.      Norse Code

 













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