Death and Other Occupational Hazards - Veronika Dapunt

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'Get ready to fall in love with this likeable and flawed version of the not-so-grim reaper CULTUREFLYAn original and darkly comedic murder mystery about a female personified Death whose sabbatical gets rudely interrupted by a string of unplanned murders. Who better to investigate a murder than Death herself? SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE'Funny and smart . . . one of my favourite books of any year' IAN MOORE, bestselling author of Death and Croissants'There are shades of Terry Pratchett in Dapunt's debut novel . . . An entertaining page-turner with plenty of metaphysical fun and games' THE GUARDIAN'A total SCREAM' JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of The Appeal---Her job is to die for. Literally.Most people think that when they meet Death, it ll be a skeleton in a black potato sack. Maybe with a scythe. Truth is, she s just a woman doing a job, and she s very good at it.But when Death takes a much-needed break to live on earth, things start to go terribly wrong. Someone s killing people not on her list (well, not yet anyway) and it's down to her to find the culprit before it s too late.To make matters worse, her sanctimonious sister, Life whom Death hasn t got on with in millennia won t stop blaming her . . . And then there s the slight problem of the charming (sexy) parasitologist she s suspicious of.But she ll be fine, right?After all, who better to investigate a murder than Death herself?-----READERS CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT DEATH!'Darkly funny, uniquely absurd and madly entertaining . . . I could practically hear Louis Armstrong crooning What a Wonderful World in the background' 5-STAR Reader Review'An absolute joy to read. . . beautifully bonkers' 5-STAR Reader Review A beautiful bittersweet tribute to life 5-STAR Reader Review'Thought-provoking and extremely moving' 5-STAR Reader Review-----More praise for Death and Other Occupational Hazards:'Wickedly irreverent and clever' IRISH INDEPENDENT'Gripped me from the start and kept me hooked to the end' DAILY MAIL'A constant grin of a novel' SFX'Gloriously absurdist, darkly comic and utterly readable' HELEN LEDERER'Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined. . . it made me fall more in love with life' LUAN GOLDIE'A tour de deathly force' ALICE BELL