In this gritty crime series debut, a London morgue assistant with an eye for detail and an ear for the dead investigates her mentors murder.Spellbinding storytelling.Val McDermid, international bestselling authorCassie Raven, 25, is a technician at the Camden morgue. A bit goth, with a face adorned with piercings, death is her universe. She takes care of her “patients” and is convinced that the dead can speak, or rather, give clues about what happened to them, if we take the trouble to listen. She thought she’d seen it all until one day the corpse of Mrs. E, her former math teacher and mentor, who years before had helped her get out of drugs, squats, and trouble with the law, arrived. Apparently, an accident. Except Cassie is convinced she was killed. Trusting her instincts, suspicious of the police, she launches an investigation to find the truth.Dans cette premire srie policire audacieuse, une assistante de morgue londonienne, soucieuse du dtail et attentive aux morts, enqute sur le meurtre de son mentor.Une narration captivante.Val McDermid, auteure succs internationalCassie Raven, 25 ans, est technicienne la morgue de Camden. Un peu gothique, visage agrment de piercings, la mort est son univers. Elle prend soin de ses patients et est persuade que les morts peuvent parler, ou plutt donner des indices sur ce qui leur est arriv, si on veut se donner la peine de les couter. Elle pensait avoir tout vu jusqu’ ce qu’arrive un jour le cadavre de Mrs E, son ancienne prof de maths et mentor, qui l’a des annes auparavant, aid sortir de la drogue, des squats et des problmes avec la justice. Apparemment, un accident. Sauf que Cassie est persuade qu’elle a t tue. Se fiant son instinct, mfiante face la police, elle se lance dans une enqute pour trouver la vrit.