When Cassie finally meets up with him, he denies that he ever touched his beloved wife.Ĭassie, who hardly remembers her mum, lives with her Polish granny Weronika, on her mother’s side, who makes life easier by being an amazing cook. Callum, however, has always argued his innocence. Her dad played guitar for an Irish folk rock band while mum worked on the high street in a local vinyl record store called Honest Bob.Ĭassie was told that her dad was a heavy drinker who was accused of beating her mother to death after getting it into his head that she had been having an affair. And now she discovers that dad is being finally released from prison after serving 17 years of a life sentence.īoth her parents were heavily into rock music in their happy days. She was just four when her mother Katherine was apparently murdered by her father Callum. Like the time she stayed overnight with a drowned nine-year-old boy because his mum had told her he was afraid of the dark. What’s more, she even occasionally breaks the rules of the mortuary. So much so that she takes out her facial piercings before a family viewing and rearranges her black-dyed hair to cover her shaved undercut. In her job Cassie, 25, is tender and respectful towards the dead but she also genuinely cares about the plight of the living. “Sadly, like so many families with roots in the area, they are in danger of being priced out.” But with million-pound houses who can afford to live here? Cassie, paid by the NHS, lives with her granny in a hard-to-let council flat in Camden. In an interview with Review, Turner, who lives in east London, said she studied many back issues of the CNJ for background before writing. So begins a fascinating and highly praised murder mystery, featuring Cassie, in the novel Life Sentence by AK Turner. Her name is Cassie Raven and she’s never fazed by scenes of the dead until she’s shown graphic photos of her own mother’s lifeless body. THERE’S an unusual amateur sleuth walking the streets of Camden who dresses as a Goth and works for a local mortuary.

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