When a beautiful woman shows up at a funeral home wearing a tennis dress, that causes suspicion. When that same woman wants to talk about her own funeral arrangements, well...what self-respecting mortician could resist?

Certainly not Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's most eligible undertaker and hero of this suspenseful mystery. Bemused and bewitched by this alluring mystery woman and her funeral fixation, Hitch's growing obsession soon draws him into a string of increasingly life-threatening circumstances involving blackmail, dirty videos, police corruption and political cover-ups. Not to mention murder. Before Hitch knows it, he's in deep. And if he's not careful, he could find himself six feet under.

Between getting mixed up with a murdered tennis pro, a suspicious cop shooting, and a train car filled with barrels of toxic sludge, Hitch barely has time to keep burying the dead, let alone attend rehearsals for the world's most ridiculous amateur production of Our Town, cope with the woes and wiles of disgruntled police detective Kate Zabriskie, and keep a safe distance from the sexiest woman on the Eastern seaboard -- his own ex-wife.

This fast-paced mystery introduces an enormously entertaining cast of characters and launches then into a witty, twisting plot that will leave readers breathless until the last page. It's Baltimore, hon. Crabs, Orioles, and now Hitchcock Sewell, the most clever, appealing, needlessly handsome amateur sleuth to stumble along in years.