The pathologist says her death was an accident. She's eviscerated thousands of bodies, but never someone she knew, someone who meant a lot to her - until now. Ĭassie Raven is used to people thinking her job is strange - why would anyone want to cut up dead bodies for a living? But they don't know what she knows: that the dead want to tell us what happened to them. fiction mystery thriller dark funny mysterious medium-paced. Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the dead can talk. ' LIKE SILENT WITNESS BUT MUCH MORE BELIEVABLE' SUSI HOLLIDAY ' SPELLBINDING STORYTELLING' VAL MCDERMID **Don't miss the next Cassie Raven mystery, LIFE SENTENCE, available to pre-order now** The taste of death can be exhilarating, even comforting.For fans of Tess Gerritsen and Kathy Reichs comes a gripping debut thriller introducing Camden's most exciting new forensic investigator.

Being set in a busy mortuary with death behind every door emphasises the strength of a writing style that uses a morbid medical backdrop to create gripping and lively tension. It will be available in Tesco and Asda stores, on Amazon, and through all good bookshops. The Cassie Raven series has powerful legs and the blood of crime fiction beats relentlessly. Body Language by A K Turner is published in the UK by Zaffre Books on 26 November. It’s tight, controlled writing at its most invigorating.

Short, action-packed chapters provide a breathless, excitement that builds anticipation as the plot moves towards a series of climaxes, each with a sub-plot that is worthy of an integral short story itself. Turner has a masterful control of pace and cadence. This is the second in the Cassie Raven series, which began with Body Language, and there are recurring references to the death of her ex-teacher, Geraldine Edwards, the victim of that first book. Life Sentence delves deeply into the medical aspects of post-mortems and dead bodies in general, and occasionally readers might reach for a medical dictionary.

Her first ever novel, Where the Devil Cant Go, under pen name Anya. Our believable main character is no stranger to death, but how will Cassie cope with uncovering the truth behind her father’s claims. A K Turners first Cassie Raven book Body Language was published by Zaffre Books in 2020. She is an orphan with troubled teenage years who finds out that she has a father – released on licence from a life sentence for killing her mother! They meet, and he says he was innocent. Life Sentence is based in a mortuary, where technician Cassie Raven, a goth with a scalpel mind as well as a cutting day job, talks affectionately to her dead charges as she pulls them out of the cold into the starkly bright strip lighting of the post-mortem suite. It’s subtle, enthralling and a modern take on a ‘who done it?’. Likely characters appear, each one joining or replacing possible suspects. Turner, in the thrilling and well-paced Life Sentence, re-writes that rule.

Crime fiction readers can often spot the villain from the first innocuous, innocent introduction.

Body Language by A.K. Turner