Lead Review (The Big Chill)

• Book: The Big Chill
• Location: Scotland
• Author: Doug Johnstone

Review Author: tripfiction

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SPOTLIGHT REVIEW

The Big Chill by Dough Johnstone

No. 2 in ‘The Skelfs’ Series

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 the darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive Skelfs series!

– Longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year –

Hooking up again with Dorothy, Jenny and Hannah, goodness they are formidable women, who exist in the twilight world of death, running a funeral parlour. The novel opens with quite some drama, as a young man, chased by the police, ploughs into a funeral that they are holding and promptly dies. He has no identification and cannot be buried until his identity is known. Ah, the Skelf women make it their mission to discover who he is.

There is betrayal and a missing person, plenty of quantum physics for your delectation and a deep dive into the world of the work of a funeral director. If you have enjoyed Six Feet Under, then this might just be your next fix of quirky and macabre entertainment.

At the time of writing, there are 6 in The Skelfs series.

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