Final Undertaking
The Buryin’ Barry Mysteries: Book #4
- By: Mark de Castrique & Poisoned Pen Press
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Description
When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s disease, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to run the family’s funeral home in the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro, where he is known as Buryin’ Barry. But even a small town in the Appalachians is not immune to crime. At a summer street dance, Barry’s friend Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins is shot at by an old man distraught over the death of his wife. The hospitalized Tommy Lee appoints Barry as the deputy in charge of the investigation, to the dismay of Deputy Reece Hutchins.
Who was the old man stalking? Why was a young woman, who was also wounded at the scene, traveling with the intended victim? What at first appears to be a case of a mentally unstable summer tourist develops into a case in which someone is preying on senior citizens. Barry discovers a tangled web of deceit stretching from western North Carolina to the Florida coast.
Barry realizes that Deputy Hutchins is undercutting his investigation. And as potential witnesses and informants begin to die under mysterious circumstances, Barry confronts a conspiracy that runs so deep that he no longer knows whom to trust. One false step, one betrayal, would make this case Buryin’ Barry’s final undertaking.
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The Buryin’ Barry Mysteries Series

Final Undertaking
By: Mark de Castrique & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s disease, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to run the family’s funeral home in the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro, where he is known as Buryin’ Barry. But even a small town in the Appalachians is not immune to crime. At a summer street dance, Barry’s friend Sheriff Tommy Lee... Read more »
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Fatal Undertaking
By: Mark de Castrique & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
You want to borrow a casket?
Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds United States Junior Chamber (Jaycee) member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jaycees’ haunted house, a charity event with all proceeds going to the children’s hospital.
But when the president of the... Read more »
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Risky Undertaking
By: Mark de Castrique & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of alocal cemetery’s expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-timeundertaker, finds his dual occupations colliding. Then, during the interment ofthe wife of one of Gainesboro’s most prominent citizens, Cherokee activistJimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly.
When... Read more »
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