Synopses & Reviews
The first book in the
Boot Hill series, a hybrid of
Unforgiven and
Six Feet Under.
Nick Graves is a Mourner. His profession is to arrange funerals and organize gatherings for wakes as well as hangings, supplementing his meagre income by making coffins. He has come to this job, a profession he learned from his father, after years making his living with a fast draw and a cool nerve. Now he wants to forget his past, forget the destruction he has caused by assuming a simple life and a quiet vocation.
But the job he takes in new town also includes some old problems. The town is stocked full of corrupt men, men who will make it very difficult for Nick to continue the family trade, men who will force him to return to his old profession, when he created corpses instead of cared for them.
Synopsis
Nick Graves is looking for honest work, and making a living from the dead is as good a job as any and better than most. A man with a gnarled shooting hand and a dark secret who's already weathered quite a few savage storms, Graves has chosen Jessup, Nebraska, as the town in which to ply his trade as funeral arranger and coffin maker. And he's come to the right place, because the law in Jessup is corrupt and folks here die quick ... and often. Thanks to the vengeful, blood-hungry cronies of a rightfully slain deputy and a depraved, knife-wielding killer, Graves's business should be booming in no time. But first he's got some other business to attend to in this dirty little town -- the kind done with a gun. And it might well be his own funeral Nick Graves has to arrange.
About the Author
Marcus Galloway makes his home in Nebraska, where he is hard at work on his next novel.