Death and Other Occupational Hazards

Author(s): Dapunt, Veronika
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 26/03/2026,
Pagination: 384 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781804995044,
Description:

'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---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 she’s a scythe-wielding skeleton in a black sack. Spoiler: she’s 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, he’s hiding something.

5. And she’s stuck in a mortal body . . . while there's a killer on the loose.

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' ? ? ? ? ?'An absolute joy to read. . . beautifully bonkers' ? ? ? ? ?‘A beautiful bittersweet tribute to life’ ? ? ? ? ?'Thought-provoking and extremely moving' ? ? ? ? ?-----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