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Another Fine Mess (Bless Your Heart Series)

Ryan, Lindy

Reviewed by: Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library

The Evans Funeral Parlor has existed for almost as long as the Southeastern Texas town in which it's located. It is a generational business, overseen and passed down through the Evans women. There's Ducy, the family's current matriarch, who is the daughter of Pie, who mysteriously disappeared eighteen years ago. Ducy's daughter is Lenore. Lenore's daughter is Grace, who is the mother of the youngest Evans woman, seventeen-year-old Luna. The Evens Funeral Parlor offers all of the services you would expect: preparing the dead for interment, viewings, burials, and cremation. They can help their small town's residents make all of their final arrangements. They also provide a service that almost no one else in town knows about: they protect them from what the Evans women refer to as "the restless dead." … Read Full Review

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