LIVING IS A PROBLEM

Drones gangland vendettas a missing choir singer disturbances in the cemetery PTSD panpsychism and secrets from the past This can ONLY mean one thing The Skelfs are back and things are as nail biting tense and warmly funny as ever 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 Another wonderful entry in one of the finest crime series out there I remain a happily hopeless Skelfaholic Mark Billingham The Skelf women are back on an even keel after everything they ve been through But when a funeral they re conducting is attacked by a drone Jenny fears they re in the middle of an Edinburgh gangland vendetta At the same time Yana a Ukrainian member of the refugee choir that plays with Dorothy s band has gone missing Searching for her leads Dorothy into strange and ominous territory And Brodie the newest member of the extended Skelf family comes to Hannah with a case Something or someone has been disturbing the grave of his stillborn son Everything is changing for the Skelfs Dorothy s boyfriend Thomas