DarkWinter Press New Release: The Professional Mourner by Neil Randall

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the novel The Professional Mourner by Neil Randall, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! You can buy it here!

About The Professional Mourner:

When Milica Stankovic is born, she won’t stop crying. The neighbours complain, her father is demoted at work, and the family is treated like pariahs. Regardless, her parents see something special in their daughter, how she seems possessed of a rare gift: to feel other people’s pain and suffering as if it’s her own.

When her father becomes friendly with a wily confidence trickster, they dream up a plot to hire out Milica’s services as a professional mourner. At the many funerals she attends, Milica expresses such raw emotion that it reduces the other mourners to fits of sobs, enabling them to finally release all their bottled-up grief, even for those who might not deserve it.

When word of Milica’s abilities reaches a high-ranking government official, Dušan Srna, he desperately wants to obtain her services. Their ailing leader is not only gravely ill, but his popularity has never been lower. If the Party can organise an emotionally-charged state funeral, Srna might just be able to uplift the nation’s spirits---but are his motives honorable?

About The Author:

Neil Randall is a novelist and short story writer. His debut novel, A Quiet Place to Die (Wild Wolf Publishing), was voted e-thriller Book of the Month for February 2014. His first collection of short stories, Tales of Ordinary Sadness (Knox Robinson Publishing, 2016) received much critical acclaim. One story was short-listed for the prestigious Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2009, another long-listed for the RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2015.  His shorter fiction and poetry have been published in the U.K., U.S., India, Australia, and Canada.