The Real Deal Mortuary

Newlywed Hattie Deal discovers a skeleton behind the walls of the mortuary her beloved Louie just inherited. The dead man is his uncle, missing for nineteen years.

But the real mystery isn’t who killed Uncle Hiram. It’s why hidden papers list her husband’s name as Aloysius Pemberton Fortenberry.

Left alone in a house full of suspicious staff, menacing lawyers, and nosy neighbors circling the same rotten secret, Hattie unearths the late aunt’s logbook. It proves the Deal family didn’t just run a mortuary. They ran a game. And someone thinks her husband is still playing.

Armed with nothing but her pocket pistol and her wits, Hattie must solve a murder two decades old before it costs her marriage – or her life.