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Casey and Death are on the run…again. This time, Casey needs to make her disappearance permanent. After obtaining new identification and throwing herself off the grid, she travels to Florida to begin a new life as Daisy Gray, fitness instructor for a moneyed, enclosed community. But even while keeping her head down, it doesn’t take long for Casey to find herself in the middle of trouble. One of the residents is attacked, and Casey is the one to find her, bleeding on the tile floor of the locker room. Despite heroic attempts to save her, she dies, and the community is thrown into turmoil. The cops are at a loss, unable to find anyone who might want the woman dead. Casey, despite Death’s encouragement to “get the hell out of Dodge, or, er, Florida,” feels partially responsible, and won’t let the murderer get away with it. Besides, where else is she going to go? Is she going to abandon this life so soon, and try to forge another? Casey takes a careful look at the victim’s life. Who could possibly want such a nice, friendly woman dead? Could it be Del, the extremely muscular man from the weight room? Or Michelle, the victim’s best friend, and resident hottie? Or even Maria, the receptionist, whose key card was used to access the locker room so late at night? And what, if anything, do Casey’s predecessors in her new job have to do with it? Casey must find out. Even with Death on her back.
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“Gimmicks are nothing new in detective stories. The earliest amateur sleuths were either eccentrics or criminals, and the first wave of private eyes in American pulp fiction distinguished themselves through such personal quirks as an aptitude for bowling. Still, you have to hand it to Judy Clemens for providing her amateur sleuth with a genuinely offbeat gimmick: she travels with Death. Flowers for Her Grave catches Clemens in the amateurish effort of explaining in detail how Casey Maldonado comes to be running from the law in the company of a specter who is addicted to reality TV shows and loves to dress up in outlandish costumes. Once past the blocks of exposition, with Casey installed as a fitness instructor in a gated Florida community where a murder takes place, we’re free to appreciate her companion’s wit and dress code: skintight Spandex for a Zumba class; a flowered bathing suit and shades for the pool; and an all-white ensemble with brass-¬handled walking stick to make a fashion statement (“I am the epitome of cool”). Not even Cosmo Topper, who was advised by two charming ghosts, can beat that one.” --New York Times
"Perhaps surprisingly, the outlandish premise somehow works, and most readers will find themselves throughly entertained by this oddly appealing mix of the jaunty and the macabre." --Booklist
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