Clean Sweep Mysteries

Marnie Kowalczyk sorts everything into four piles: keep, sell, donate, trash. After twenty-six years of marriage she has a used box truck called the Beast, a horn that plays a fanfare whenever it feels like it, and custody of her ex-husband’s mother — Dodie, seventy-eight, four foot eleven, carrying wasp spray "for emergencies."

Clean Sweep clears out the houses nobody else wants to walk into. Hoarder basements. A dead man’s antique shop. A bowling alley with nine hundred trophies in it. And in every single one, something turns up that the family swore was not there — usually with a body attached.

Funny, warm, and firmly on the side of a woman starting over at fifty-two with a label maker and a lot of nerve. Closed-door slow burn with the deputy coroner. Mild language, no gore, and no animals harmed.