Death and Other Occupational Hazards 9781804995044 Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE.Good Omensmeets Bella Mackie in this wickedly funny, joyful and twisted murder mystery about Death leading a murder investigation while on earth for her once-in-a-millennium sabbatical.’I laughed, I cried (no, seriously, I ugly cried)”I could practically hear Louis Armstrong crooningWhat a Wonderful Worldin the background”Beautifully bonkers”Absolutely amazing!”Uniquely absurd and madly entertaining”This book is an absolute vision utterly grabbed me immediately’—————-Death is having an existential crisis and honestly, she needs some time off. But the minute she arrives in London for a well-earned break, everything goes terribly wrong:1. People still insist shes a scythe-wielding skeleton in a black sack. Spoiler: shes a woman who’d love a wardrobe upgrade, thanks.2. Life, her sanctimonious sister, blames her for, well,everything.3. A string of murders occurs off-schedule. Nothing ruins a holiday quite like an admin disaster.4. A charming (sexy) scientist shows up, and, of course, hes hiding something.5. And shes stuck in a mortal body . . . while there’s a killer on the loose.But shell be fine, right?After all, who better to investigate a murder than Death herself?PRAISE FOR DEATH AND OTHER OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS:’One of myfavouritebooks ofany year’IAN MOORE’A totalSCREAM’JANICE HALLETT’There areshades of Terry Pratchettin Dapunt’s debut novel . . . Anentertaining page-turnerwith plenty of metaphysicalfun and games’THE GUARDIAN’Wickedly irreverentand clever’IRISH INDEPENDENT’Gripped me from the start andkept me hookedto the end’DAILY MAIL’Aconstant grinof a novel’SFX’Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined. . . it made me fall more in love with life’LUAN GOLDIE’Atour de deathly force’ALICE BELL