Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

by Robert Galbraith

compos mentis

A corpse, however unwelcome, meant anguish could find both expression and sublimation among flowers, speeches and ritual, consolation drawn from God, alcohol and fellow mourners; an apotheosis reached, a first step taken toward grasping the awful fact that life was extinct, and life must go on.

pusillanimous,

Mazankov and Krupov,