Death and Other Occupational Hazards

Funny and smart with something new to think about and laugh at on every page. A top-class, deep-dish murder mystery and one of my favourite books of any year. * IAN MOORE, comedian and author of Death and Croissants * Gloriously absurdist, darkly comic, and utterly readable – twisty fantasy meets Jane Austen with a scythe - love it * HELEN LEDERER, comedian and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize * Life, death, love and murder collide in the most delicious way. This wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined book put me through all the emotions. I never knew what was coming next, but at every point, it made me fall more in love with life. * LUAN GOLDIE, author of the Women’s Prize long-listed Nightingale Point * Veronika Dapunt masterfully blends dark humour with a compelling mystery, offering a fresh and often hilarious perspective on life and death. * JOANNA WALLACE, author of You’d Look Better as a Ghost * Veronika Dapunt has written a book that you'd hate for being so original and clever, if it wasn't so good! Packed with deadpan humour, dry wit and warm emotion, Death And Other Occupational Hazards is a tour de deathly force that grapples with what it is to be human, as well as a puzzling series of crimes. A murder mystery novel that really makes you appreciate being alive! I loved it. * ALICE BELL, author of Grave Expectations * Clever, comedic, and tender, Dapunt’s debut has it all: mystery, metaphysical hilarity, and the witty voice of Death herself as she navigates the messy world of mortals. This story and its creative cast of characters had me smiling from start to finish. * KATHERINE A. OLSON, author of Look What You Made Me Do * I found myself wanting to rush back to the book whenever I could – genuine wit and warmth run all the way through the narrative… Inventive, fresh, cheering, genuinely moving and truly funny. * SILVIA SAUNDERS * Veronika Dapunt has fashioned an unforgettably winning heroine, a plot full of deliciously dark turns, and a wonderfully witty, elegant, to-die-for entertainment. * RICHARD T. KELLY, author of The Knives *