Do You like book Hearse Of A Different Color (2001)?
Less zany than the first one in the series. Hitch is still a smart aleck and defender of the helpless. He gets roped into a tangled web of family deceptions and despair when a body is dropped on the steps of his funeral home when inside a family gathers around a doctor who died of a heart attack. Coincidence, act of defiance, remorse, warning? Nothing and all of the above perhaps. A better structured plot, a lot less secondary or just passing through zany characters make this second novel in Cockey's undertaker/detective series much more interesting than the first one.
—Writerlibrarian
I enjoyed the first person narrative - Hitch is both humorous and likeable. How funny that he's an undertaker and it actually made sense how he got entangled in the mystery of Helen. I didn't like how he had Helen and Haden and then Bonnie and Billie - of all the names, you have to have two sets that start and end with the same letters? Toss that in with Helen being Vickie (or not) and it got a little muddled at times for me. Overall, the mystery's resolution was a little underwhelming but I lik
—Jenny
This is the second, and our second, in the five-book Hitchcock Sewell undertaker and amateur sleuth series. Hitch spends little time at his funeral parlor in this one – rather, he really does roam throughout Baltimore chasing one clue after another, and one suspicious party after another, in search for who bumped off a waitress and dumped her body on his mortuary doorstep!As with the first story, there is plenty of humor to go along with the mystery. However, “Color” features a somewhat more complex plot; and even manages to mount some ongoing suspense, as an overload of potential villains takes till near the final pages to sort themselves out. Hitch turns out to be quite a ladies man as well, spending much of the book prone, but not on his undertaker’s slab! By now, we get a pretty good sense of what these stories will be like, and will no doubt pick one up when we’re in the mood for a light-hearted mystery that is as amusing as it is puzzling!
—Jerry
