The Corpse Winked Hardcover – March 8, 2026

New York City, 1910. Rocco Foscarini runs a funeral parlor in a neighborhood where grief is business, silence is survival, and the wrong favor can get a man buried beside his customers. He has learned to keep his head down, do his work, and never ask why some families pay extra for a closed casket.Then a corpse on his table winks.What should be impossible becomes deadly. A body that should stay dead leads Rocco into a tightening maze of whispered bargains, hidden wounds, counterfeit money, and men who kill first and let God sort out the details later. Every favor owed drags him deeper. Every lie told costs more. And in a city ruled by fear, loyalty can be more dangerous than betrayal.Now Rocco must decide how much of his soul he is willing to trade to stay alive.The Corpse Winked is a dark, noir-soaked historical crime thriller packed with dread, cliffhangers, and old-world menace—where the dead won’t stay quiet, and the living are far worse. Read more