She died on a Tuesday.
By Wednesday, things really got complicated.
A darkly hilarious road trip across Eastern Europe where the dead see more clearly than the living, the criminals can't catch a break, and family is the one thing you can't outrun.
Debut Novel
She died on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, things really got complicated.
Ona Kazlauskiene is seventy-eight years old, critically opinionated, and suddenly very dead. When she passes away somewhere on a Hungarian highway during a family road trip, her son makes the only logical decision: rent a trailer, load up the body, and keep driving to Lithuania.
What the family doesn't anticipate is the trailer getting stolen at a Slovakian gas station.
Now Ona's corpse is hurtling across Eastern Europe in the back of a stolen vehicle, driven by two of the most incompetent criminals the continent has ever produced. Darko has a plan (he always has a plan). Emil has a bad feeling (he always has a bad feeling). Neither of them knows they're transporting a grandmother.
Meanwhile, the Kazlauskas family is trying to file a police report for a stolen trailer without mentioning the dead body inside it. The bureaucracy alone might finish them off.
And Ona? She's right there, watching the whole disaster unfold in ghost form. She could move on to the afterlife — she peeked, and it looked like a government office waiting room — but honestly? This is much more entertaining.
Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, and Beartown by Fredrik Backman.
About the Author
Sinzik writes stories that refuse to stay in one lane. Dark comedy that makes you laugh at a funeral. Thrillers where the criminals are worse at crime than you are at assembling IKEA furniture. Family dramas where the dead grandmother is the most reasonable person in the room.
The only constant: every book has to make you feel something you didn't expect.
Sinzik is one of the first authors building a creative partnership with AI — not as a shortcut, but as an instrument. Human imagination sets the direction. AI helps the prose reach places neither could get to alone. It's a new way to make books. The result speaks for itself.
The Corpse Went East is Sinzik's debut novel. It won't be the last surprise.