"Spooky! Hilarious! And beautifully written. Ocker's Death and Douglas now joins Bradbury's The Halloween Tree as an annual autumn read." ―Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why
Douglas has grown up around the business of death at his family's funeral home and is good at it...until the basement morgue starts filling with murder victims. On the cusp of Halloween, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and it’s quirky people, fascinating yet middle grade–appropriate information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusion―Death and Douglas has something for readers young and old.
