title: Over His Dead Body: A Novel
author:  Leslie Glass 
description: For fans of Susan Isaacs and Olivia Goldsmith . . . A winner.<br /><i>Library Journal<br /></i><br />[Glass] displays the same wit and steady hand [as] Susan Isaacs, cleverly capturing the style and pretensions of life in the New York suburbs.<br /><i>Orlando Sentinel<br /></i><br />In her wryly humorous and richly textured novel, Leslie Glass reminds us that sometimes life is a minefield that can only be traversed . . . <i>Over His Dead Body</i>.<br />JUDY FITZWATER, author of <i>Dying to Get Her Man</i><br /><br />Scabrously funny...a romantic comedy in basic black."<br /><i>Kirkus Reviews</i><b><br /><br /></b>
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  > The Glass Man
  
    
  
  > Joyce Lionarons
  
    
  
  > A Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ©2019 Joyce Lionarons
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
  without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who
  may quote brief passages in a review.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Brief Historical Note
  
    
  
  The glass delusion that Lord Peverly suffers from was a culturally-specific
  manifestation of mental illness in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period,
  all but dying out in the following centuries. The most famous medieval case is
  that of King Charles VI of France (d. 1422), who would not allow people to
  touch him for fear he might shatter into pieces and who had rods sewn into his
  clothing to keep it from touching his skin.