Running private investigator and funeral home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the Skelf women take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet in book two of this darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive new series!
Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors' and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can't help looking into the dead driver's shadowy life.
While Dorothy uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny's ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women's lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly.
But something even more sinister emerges when a drumming student of Dorothy's disappears and suspicion falls on her parents. The Skelf women find themselves sucked into an unbearable darkness - but could the real threat be to themselves?
Following three women as they deal with the dead, help the living and find out who they are in the process, The Big Chill follows A Dark Matter, book one in the Skelfs series, which reboots the classic PI novel while asking the big existential questions, all with a big dose of pitch-black humour.
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Dorothy felt at home surrounded by dead people. 1, DOROTHY
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(@OrendaBooks, 20 August 2020, 300 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 2 August)
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I'd never heard of the author before so I had no idea what to expect. I really loved this book. I now need to read book one, A Dark Matter and I can't wait to find out what the Skelf women get up to next. I read a lot of books along a similar vein and my favourite PI is Charlie Parker from John Connolly's books. It's hard to put a finger on what makes this different and unique, it just is. I loved the way the women combine being PI's with running a funeral home, two things you'd never think of putting together, but they work. The Skelf women are brilliant characters, strong and feisty, great role models. The book is very dark at times especially when Craig re-enters the picture and Dorothy finds out the truth about her drumming student. There is a lot of humour as well. This is a cracking read.
