This book by Elizabeth Haynes took me back to a book by Mary Roach (Stiff) which was all about cadavers and really interesting. Human Remains is all about the decomposition of cadavers, the sexual fetish of Colin who helps people who are leaning toward suicide to accomplish it by starvation. It’s a little dicey how he does it – something called NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which he studied.
Annabel, a crime analyst for the police, discovers her decomposing neighbor’s body, and is shocked that no one had noticed her missing. (Annabel wonders if she is in the same category and would not be missed for some time.) She discovers twenty some other bodies have been discovered in town, all in a state of decay. Because none of the deaths were suspicious, none have been investigated as criminal. Annabel manages to get the officials to take the deaths seriously. The book is narrated in turns by Annabel and Colin. Quite a gruesome read and not for the squeamish.