Title: Hearse of a Different Color
Author: Tim Cockey
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Publisher: Hyperion
Copyright: 2001
ISBN: 0786889632
Pages: 382
Keywords: mystery, humor
Reading period: 13-16 June, 2007

Hitchcock Sewell is an undertaker who finds the murdered body of a waitress on the front door of his funeral parlor, one winter's evening during a wake. Hitch and his weatherwoman girlfriend, Bonnie, become obsessed with finding out who killed the waitress.

This is a fairly amusing comic mystery, with a semi-plausible but twisted plot. Hitch is a sympathetic character, albeit one who drinks too much and whose eye wanders.