Exequy

by Mark Clendon

Inconsolably grieving, a woman searches endlessly for her missing son. Her uncle, a necromancer, tells her her son is not dead, and for his own reasons cruelly sustains her unwarranted hope of finding him alive. Enraged and desperate, she refuses to attend her husband’s funeral, staying with her uncle in the mountains until the discovery of a coat belonging to the missing boy sets in motion a chain of accusation, denial, inquest and execution. Set over three days in the Carpathian Mountains in remote antiquity, Exequy explores bereavement without the benefit of a funeral, telling how a woman’s grief all but destroys her, and how love eventually saves her.

260 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2018