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Black hearts /

by Johnstone, Douglas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Skelfs series: Publisher: London : Orenda Books, 2022Description: 260 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781914585296 (pbk.) :; 1914585291 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Skelf family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction | Crime | Crime | Modern & contemporary fiction | Crime & mystery fiction | Classic crime fiction | Thriller / suspense fiction | Romance | Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery storiesSummary: The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as they are left reeling by shocking past events. A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death, while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave - pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home, it becomes clear that grief, in all its forms, can be deadly.
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The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as they are left reeling by shocking past events. A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death, while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave - pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home, it becomes clear that grief, in all its forms, can be deadly.

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