Cosby, who goes by Shawn, is a big, gregarious, bearded man in a small black cap his hands move in his lap when he speaks. It’s a warm afternoon in early August, and we’re sitting outside next to Redmond’s navy-blue hearse. He laughs: “I also sneak off and write sometimes.” He drives the hearse he picks up the bodies. “I do the utility work, she’s the boss,” he says, noting that, unlike his wife, he isn’t a licensed mortician. He still puts in hours there, though fewer since his crime novels began to appear on national best-seller lists. It’s owned by Kimberly Redmond Cosby, the wife of the crime writer S. Redmond Funeral Home is a low-slung brick building in this small town in southern coastal Virginia.
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