Death at Egg Harbor (A Jamie Burger Novel Book 1)
- 4.1 out of 5
- 89 ratings
- 339 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
The story centers on a young woman pulled into her family’s funeral-home world after a death in the community. Much of the tone is comic and relational: nagging relatives, small-town gossip, ex-boyfriend tension, and learning embarrassing trade details on the job. Parents should expect recurring blunt insults among adults and teens, occasional mild swearing, and emotionally messy family scenes rather than dark thriller pacing. Content notes from the sampled material include funeral and embalming work with dead bodies, blood drainage, and the narrator’s discomfort around those tasks—more unsettling or gross-out than action violence, but steady in that setting. There is one described fistfight with visible injury, plus brief spoken references to violent deaths. A grandmother’s crude remark about prostitution appears once. There are no sampled racial slurs; matches for a certain animal breed name refer only to a pet cat. No customer review notes were provided, and no other listed theme categories are supported by the supplied passages beyond mild sexual reference, profanity, violence, and crude language.
Reviews first uploaded September 29, 2026 10:30 pm. Revised October 7, 2026 3:33 pm. Page updated October 7, 2026 3:33 pm.
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Crude Moderate
15Characters often call one another or themselves foolish or use blunt playground-style insults, especially in arguments with relatives and close friends; it is woven through dialogue rather than isolated once or twice.
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- stupid: 12
- suck: 2
- idiot: 1
Profanity Mild
13Light rough language appears in family banter and inner monologue, including mild rear-end insults and common hell-themed figures of speech scattered across the story.
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Specific words
- butt: 6
- hell: 4
- ass: 2
- damn: 1
Sex Mild
1Sexual subject matter is limited to a single harsh comparison about how someone is dressed; there is no on-page sexual activity in the samples.
Specific words
- hooker: 1
Violence Moderate
7A bar fight is described with punching and injuries to a character’s face; elsewhere violence is mostly talked about in stories of past crimes or mentioned in exaggerated funeral anecdotes, not constant graphic harm.
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- punch: 3
- smash: 2
- kick: 1
- stab: 1
About this book
Three generations of women. One family funeral business. Two suitors. And a very fat cat. After living in Minneapolis for twenty years, forty-two-year-old Jamie Burger moves back to her hometown of Egg Harbor, Minnesota heartbroken and broke. Her only possessions: a small suitcase and her faithful friend Fat Bob the cat. Moving back in with her mom and grandma is hard enough, but she soon finds herself doing what she's always avoided—running the family funeral home. Her first client: her best friend Duffy Davis, whose dad has just passed. But it seems like Mr. Davis had a few big skeletons in his closet, including a secret second family. As Jamie helps negotiate the ensuing court battle, she's also busy being romanced by her high school crush, falling for Duffy's brother, and trying to stay as far away from dead bodies as she possibly can. This full-length novel is both funny and poignant, featuring the lovable small town characters, cat hijinks, adventure, and sweet romance readers have come to expect from Alannah Rogers, author of the #1 Amazon bestselling Beatrice Young cozy cat mysteries. This novel has no foul language, sex, or gratuitous violence, though there are some graphic details about the natural process of death and all that funeral homes entail. **Please note that this novel was formerly titled "Nice Day for a Funeral." The cover and title have been updated. As of 2017, the novel has been completely re-edited to fix typos.** Read more