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Death and Other Occupational Hazards

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Good Omens meets Katy Brent in this sparkling debut - Who better to solve a murder than Death herself? Dark humour with an endearing side, it's Death like you've never seen her before. 'Funny and smart . . . one of my favourite books of any... Read More
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Death and Other Occupational Hazards

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Good Omens meets Katy Brent in this sparkling debut - Who better to solve a murder than Death herself? Dark humour with an endearing side, it's Death like you've never seen her before. 'Funny and smart . . . one of my favourite books of any year' IAN MOORE, bestselling author of Death and Croissants 'There are shades of Terry Pratchett in Dapunt's debut novel . . . An entertaining page-turner with plenty of metaphysical fun and games' THE GUARDIAN 'A total SCREAM' JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of The Appeal --- Her job is to die for. Literally. Most people think that when they meet Death, it'll be a skeleton in a black potato sack. Maybe with a scythe. Truth is, she's just a woman doing a job, and she's very good at it. But when Death takes a much-needed break to live on earth, things start to go terribly wrong. Someone's killing people not on her list (well, not yet anyway) and it's down to her to find the culprit before it's too late. To make matters worse, her sanctimonious sister, Life - whom Death hasn't got on with in millennia - won't stop blaming her . . . And then there's the slight problem of the charming (sexy) parasitologist she's suspicious of. But she'll be fine, right? After all, who better to investigate a murder than Death herself? More praise for Death and Other Occupational Hazards- 'Wickedly irreverent and clever' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Gripped me from the start and kept me hooked to the end' DAILY MAIL 'A constant grin of a novel' SFX 'Gloriously absurdist, darkly comic and utterly readable' HELEN LEDERER 'Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined. . . it made me fall more in love with life' LUAN GOLDIE 'A tour de deathly force' ALICE BELL

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804995044

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Veronika Dapunt is a British-Austrian writer. Her debut novel, Death and Other Occupational Hazards, was a runner-up for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She has always had a love of the darkly comic and the absurd, quite possibly the reason why her first career was in law. Veronika holds a degree from the University of Oxford and currently lives in London.

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