The Corpse Went East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798247368397)

She died on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, things really got complicated.

Ona Kazlauskiene is seventy-eight years old, critically opinionated, and suddenly very dead. When she passes away somewhere on a Hungarian highway during a family road trip, her son makes the only logical decision: rent a trailer, load up the body, and keep driving to Lithuania.

What the family doesn't anticipate is the trailer getting stolen at a Slovakian gas station.

Now Ona's corpse is hurtling across Eastern Europe in the back of a stolen vehicle, driven by two of the most incompetent criminals the continent has ever produced. Darko has a plan (he always has a plan). Emil has a bad feeling (he always has a bad feeling). Neither of them knows they're transporting a grandmother.

Meanwhile, the Kazlauskas family is trying to file a police report for a stolen trailer without mentioning the dead body inside it. The bureaucracy alone might finish them off.

And Ona? She's right there, watching the whole disaster unfold in ghost form. She could move on to the afterlife - she peeked, and it looked like a government office waiting room - but honestly? This is much more entertaining.

A darkly hilarious road trip across Eastern Europe where the dead see more clearly than the living, the criminals can't catch a break, and family is the one thing you can't outrun - even after death.

Perfect for fans of:

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman