Book 21 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Now a little ahead with my reading schedule. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there.
Chuck Tingle has become one of my favorite authors to read and I’ve celebrated each of his books on here as they’ve come out, so when a new book, Fabulous Bodies, was released this month of course I was going to snap it up and read it as soon as possible!
Poppy Stringer is a social media fashion influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers, which ostensibly is how she makes her living. In reality, though, she earns money to support herself and her daughter Marlo by being a modern day grave robber: bluffing her way into morgues to pick up corpses for various shady individuals to use for their own ends. She is not particularly troubled by her choice of income because they’re just bodies after death, objects that can be bought and sold.
Then Poppy receives an unusual call, offering her $5 million to steal the body of a recently deceased celebrity. Though she is suspicious, the job comes with a significant payment in advance, so she can’t resist the possibility of making a better life for her and Marlo.
At first, things go off without a hitch. As the caller promised, she has no issue claiming the body from the medical examiner’s office. But soon things take an unexpected turn into impossible horror and Poppy becomes entangled in a series of horrifically gruesome murders. She will have to use all of her wits and her ruthless drive to succeed in order to survive the night with her body and soul intact.
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Skulls in the Stars 