Bill Mootos

A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.