cover image Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go

Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go

Robert Olmstead. Avon Books, $11 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71548-0

New Hampshire mortician Eddie Ryan befriends Cody, a renegade logger who moves in with the Ryan family after bringing in a dead co-worker; Eddie and Cody's subsequent adventures are peopled with oddballs and punctuated by deaths tragic or bizarre. PW called this a ``sprawling, offbeat saga'' that is ``reflective yet picaresque.'' (Jan.)