GHOST NOTES

A heart attack at a funeral blackmail murder grief bots affairs the power of music and ghosts of every kind who threaten the Skelfs very existence The Skelfs are back in another gripping heartfelt and irresistible mystery The persistence of love in the Skelf household no matter what fate flings at it is reassuring and life affirming The Times The Skelfs feel like family their joys are my joys their pains are my pain Edinburgh s favourite family bringing darkness and delight Val McDermid AI remain a happily hopeless Skelfaholic Mark Billingham The Skelf women have been keeping their heads down running the family s funeral directors and private investigation businesses But when a woman collapses at her husband s funeral and is saved by Dorothy she finds herself drawn into the murky world of grief tech a booming new industry that creates digital avatars of the dead Jenny s latest case a simple blackmail job for an old school friend quickly spirals into chaos as the woman s tangled love life pulls Jenny towards dangerous old habits Meanwhile Hannah and her wife Indy are confronted by the unexpected arrival of Indy s ex boyfriend claiming to be dying and eager for the Skelfs to arrange his funeral But his arrival uncovers more gh