“The Undertaker’s Wife” is the third book by Loren D. Estleman that I’ve read and so far, it’s my favorite. I really love the way Estleman treats the American West by dealing, not with the honest, square jawed, lawman versus the evil rustler/gunslinger/bank robber, but with everyday people in different vocations who were really the ones who settled
the West.
This book is from the point of view of Lucy Connable, wife to Richard who was among the most advanced and talented undertakers in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
It is the story of their life, starting in New York, followed by moving to San Francisco and their subsequent moves east (who would have ...