Dark Undertakings by Rebecca Tope

Drew Slocombe has started a new job and career as a trainee undertaker.  He no longer wishes to be a nurse.  

He is called out to the home of Jim Lapsford who has been found dead in bed that morning next to his wife.  The local GP has already visited and declared the death to be by heart attack.  To save money the local GPs have been asked to only order a post mortem if the cause of death is not clear.  Jim, aged 55, had been in really good health and did not take any medication.  Drew is not convinced that it was a heart attack.  

As Drew talks to people and tries to make his own enquiries into Jim's life and death he finds that many people did not like him and he was known to have liaisons with lots women in the town.  Jim is going to be cremated and so Drew has only a few days to try to establish if he was murdered, and if so, who by.