#BlogTour ‘Life Sentence’ by A.K Turner

About the book…

Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the last thoughts of the dead linger like static in the air…

Cassie has always had a strange affinity with death, ever since her parents were killed in a car crash when she was four. At least that’s what she grew up believing…

But that was a lie. Cassie’s father is alive. He was convicted of murdering her mother and spent years behind bars. Now he’s out – and he’s looking for her.

He swears he didn’t do it. And Cassie wants to believe him.

To find the truth, she must turn detective. As she seeks answers, help is to be found in inexplicable places – for the dead are ready to talk.

Hugest thanks once more to the wonderful Tracy Fenton for the chance to read and review ‘Life Sentence’ by A.K Turner 

It is published in e-book and paperback formats on 12th April 2022, by Zaffre Books.

The second in the Cassie Raven series brings us back from the ropes that the first novel,‘Body Language’, left us dangling on, aware that Cassie’s entire life had been turned upside down. Raised by Weronika, her Polish grandmother after the death of her parents, she is shockingly told that her is still alive and was imprisoned for the death of her mother .

As if this wasn’t enough to deal with, her exoneration from accusations of stealing a corpse aside, she has to deal with newcomers at work in the form of Professor Curzon (dickhead who suffers from short man syndrome) and Jason Begby (newcomer and perpetual shower of disrespect to the dead.)

Living with her nan as she recovers from a stroke gives Cassie a sense of a base and a home where she can look into what happened in her past, all her preciously cultivated memories of childhood now tinged with murder.

At work, the casual disregard with which a young, goth man who has completed suicide, has her seething with rage, the way in which communities who exist on the fringes if society are seen as ‘encouraging’ of self-destructive behaviour is both harmful and untrue. Dealing in scientific facts, as Cassie does, and feeling a kinship with this boy, as Cassie lives a goth lifestyle, she hopes that he will ‘talk’ to her as something about Bradley’s death just doesn’t add up…

Thankfully she has support in her friend, and burgeoning love interest, Archie Cuff, to look into a death that others are happy to pass off as a ‘simple’ case.

As the tension ratchets up, you pound the streets of Camden, the real Camden, as Cassie digs deep into both her past and Bradley’s, to bring a sense of redemption and healing to the life sentence which sudden, and horrifying death, hands down to the living.

Vividly realised and deeply emotional, Cassie Raven and the way in which she talks to the dead marks this series as original, affecting and deeply addictive. I am on pins for Book 3!

About the author…

A.K.’s first foray into crime fiction was a detective thriller trilogy, written under the pen name Anya Lipska, following the adventures of Janusz Kiszka, tough guy and fixer to London’s Polish community. The first of the trilogy led Val McDermid to select her for the prestigious New Blood panel at Harrogate Crime Festival. All three books won critical acclaim and are currently under option as a potential TV crime series.

Set in a Camden morgue, A.K.’s new novels feature crime-solving Goth-girl mortuary attendant Cassie Raven. Cassie has already appeared in Cut and Paste, a crime short for BBC Radio 4, who are interested in commissioning further stories featuring the character.

In her other life as a TV producer and writer, A.K. makes documentaries and drama-docs on subjects as diverse as the Mutiny on the Bounty, the sex lives of Neanderthals, and Monty Don’s Italian Gardens.

Twitter @AnyaLipska @ZaffreBooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n

Link-http://www.anyalipska.com/