Lenore's Last Funeral

By J.M. Donellan,

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Lenore is a professional mourner with the unwanted gift of a peculiar variety of precognition. She spends her days pretending to grieve for strangers and her nights genuinely grieving her recently deceased boyfriend. When Lenore is hired to attend the funeral of wealthy businessman Elliott Brindle, she discovers that she…


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1 author picked Lenore's Last Funeral as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an amazingly funny and smart novel. Main character, Lenore, is a professional moirologist—a professional mourner, hired by the relatives of recently deceased rich people. She’s also an expert in the general subject of death, as is her brother, Darius, although in a slightly different way. He’s a professional film extra specializing in playing corpses in B-grade horror movies. Everything gets complicated when Lenore inherits a spooky, run-down house from one of her dead clients, a house that might hold the key to a mystery involving an evil corporation, a missing child, and (oh, yeah) a ghost.

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