Angela Richman is a Death Investigator who gathers a slew of information at the scenes of murders and hands off the info to the county's medical examiner. Like other stories in the series, which is set in a fictional area described as 40 miles west of St. Louis, Angela is working with Jace, a police detective at the scene of a murder. An older man of wealth and respectability has been found dead in his love nest—an apartment over a chocolate shop—on a 9-foot square "Alaskan" king-sized bed with black silk sheets. He is naked, except for a blue tie and a woolen letter "A" on his chest. This is the first of a few cases they handle in this book, and if you like details about what death investigators look for, this is a book that will hold your interest. Angela works with Jace to help solve the cases, as well.
Additionally, Angela's relationship with Chris, a policeman in the same department, advances when Chris asks Angela to marry him. Like a stunned rabbit, she avoids answering, not sure if she wants to marry again after having lost her first husband at a young age. When Chris is badly injured in an area far from his usual beat, his coma turns their lives upside down..
The antagonists in Viets's stories might be slightly caracatured, but she creates characters one loves to hate. Her protagonists always seem relatable, with dialogue that feels natural. The solutions of the murders felt right, but after that, there was an ending I didn't expect.
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