I don't remember which review convinced me to pick this up, but I never found my way into Mort(e). It just kept moving from implausible to ridiculous without taking a step back. I added a star because I've never read anything quite like it and that's worth something. 
 Also, I suffered through the audio version of this novel, read by Bronson Pinchot - he sounded so bored with the material that reading in the character voice of Balki Bartokomous from Perfect Strangers would have been an improvement. Good novels can survive poor narration. Bad ones cannot.