Morgue Mama: The Cross Kisses Back (Morgue Mama Series #1)

by C. R. Corwin

Overview

In the world of newspapers, the morgue is the place - usually somewhere in the bowels of the building - where old story clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of The Hannawa Herald-Union's morgue for more than 40 years. She is gruff and salty, well past the age of retirement, and the unchallenged queen of her ink-stained domain. Reporters call her Morgue Mama - but only behind her back.

Maddy's well-ordered world is turned upside-down when the paper hires 24-year-old Aubrey McGinty for its police beat. Aubrey loses no time in questioning the conviction of Sissy James for the murder of TV evangelist Buddy Wing. Sissy had confessed live on television, and the evidence seems overwhelming, but the ambitious young reporter doesn't believe she did it. But why did Sissy embrace guilt? Aubrey enlists Maddy's help and together they begin a harrowing search for the truth. Digging into the files, they soon - dangerously - uncover enough suspects to fill a studio with those who do the devil's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455167227
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Series:	Morgue Mama Series , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	7
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

C.R. Corwin is the pseudonym of Rob Levandoski, a former newspaper reporter in Akron, Ohio. During his career in journalism, he covered police and schools, wrote for the entertainment department, and snapped pictures for the Medina County Gazette. He later worked in public relations, edited political science textbooks, wrote book reviews for The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer and taught writing courses at the University of Akron. He died unexpectedly in 2008 at age 59.

Editorial Reviews

In this wonderfully entertaining piece of silliness, Lorna Raver has to alternate between the sexagenarian voice of the archive librarian Dolly Madison Sprowls, known as Maddy, at the Hannawa, Ohio, Herald-Union newspaper (who is called Morgue Mama behind her back) and the lovely, youthful timbre of Aubrey McGinty, an ambitious rookie crime reporter whose unlikely sidekick Maddy becomes. Together they try to sort out the murder of TV evangelist Buddy Wing, who pitched over dead in the middle of a broadcast, poisoned by the gold paint on his Bible. Raver doing the pompous cadences of Reverend Wing is a riot, and her portrayals of the protagonists are so sympathetic and misleading that you never see the MacGuffin coming, although Corwin and Raver are hiding it right in plain sight. B.G. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2012 - AudioFile

A bell ringer of a crime novel. Everything about the setting rings absolutely true, and the plot is great.

Dana Stabenow

"A brainteaser and a comic salute to the rather terrifying charm of its heroine."

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

"A brainteaser and a comic salute to the rather terrifying charm of its heroine."

Marilyn Stasio