The Man With Two Funerals: A witty whodunit about stolen identities, a forged will, and a second death that should be impossible

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A witty whodunit about stolen identities, a forged will, and a second death that should be impossibleKit Morley is getting used to death turning up where it shouldn’t. Even so, she doesn’t expect it to arrive by courier. An urn lands at Laurel Court with Kit’s name on the card.

Inside: ashes, a signet ring that belonged to beloved local philanthropist Edmund Prowse, and a freshly dated will that cuts out his family and charities in favor of an anonymous “consultant.” There’s one small problem. Edmund Prowse was officially cremated three months ago… and two days after the delivery, CCTV on the pier captures him walking past the bait shop, fox-headed cane and all.

The police want to talk about fraud. Kit smells something much worse. With Owen Sharpe tracking money through shell companies, Mrs.

Bellamy reconstructing the “double” like a director casting a body double, and Priya Rae pulling quiet strings in the community center, the Laurel Court Cold-Case Club starts picking at the edges of Prowse’s spotless reputation. Hospice visitor logs don’t match crematorium records. A jeweler remembers resizing the ring for a man with a different name.

A self-storage unit holds empty archive crates tied to a missing library box number: LB-42. Then a body washes ashore, and the town has to ask a very awkward question: who, exactly, did they bury the first time?