Death and Other Occupational Hazards

Discover a darkly comic speculative murder mystery from an exciting new novelist, perfect for fans of Good Omens and Lucifer. People have a few ideas about Death, and the worst by far is a skeleton in a black potato sack. If she''s lucky, she gets a scythe. The truth: she''s just a woman doing a job and she''s very good at it. Until she takes time off to live as a human and everything falls apart. Someone''s killing people not on her schedule (well, not yet anyway) and with no thanks to the Temp she left in charge, it''s up to her to make things right. With the help of her oh-so-sanctimonious sister, Life, and a charming (sexy) parasitologist, Death must stop the killer before it''s too late. That''s if she can defeat her greatest challenge yet - human bureaucracy. Who better to investigate a murder than Death herself?

About the author

Veronika Dapunt is a British-Austrian writer. Her debut novel, Death and Other Occupational Hazards, was a runner-up for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She has always had a love of the darkly comic and the absurd, quite possibly the reason why her first career was in law. Veronika holds a degree from the University of Oxford and currently lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Veronika Dapunt
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9780857506863
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-686-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Crime & mystery, FICTION / Fantasy / Humorous, FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary, Contemporary Fantasy, Humorous fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary