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Over My Dead Body

'I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT
By Maz Evans
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Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down. JANICE HALLETT Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell. S J BENNETT Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm... Read More
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An original, hilarious and heart-warming crime novel about a woman investigating her own death, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett.

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Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down. JANICE HALLETT

Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell. S J BENNETT

Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm dead.

The local police, who couldn't investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that's all.

Unless I prove to my inquest this week that my death was no 'misadventure', I'm condemned to 50 years in Limbo. I have to find my killer - but I can't communicate with any living human. Well, there's one, but she barely qualifies . . . Winnie - my neighbour and nemesis. It seems the dying can interact with the dead, which is helpful news for me, if not stellar for Winnie. Oh well. She'll live. Maybe.

Suspects? How long have you got? My saintly husband, who'd reached his limit? My best friend, who was anything but? My secret lover, or his wife? My disgruntled colleague? The mother who wrongly holds me responsible for her child's death? Professor Plum? Your guess is as good as mine.

So Winnie - slap on your deerstalker and strap on your granny pants. Let's catch a killer! Assuming we don't kill each other first . . .

A triumph...there are also moving moments amid the hilarity DAILY MIRROR

Splendidly offbeat whodunnit....Evans knows how to make an unlikely plot seem entirely believable DAILY EXPRESS

Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. Imaginative, witty and original...an absolute joy! WOMAN & HOME

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035402342

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Headline Book Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 226g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Maz Evans is the author of the bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT?, VI SPY and THE EXPLODING LIFE OF SCARLETT FIFE series, which have collectively sold to 22 countries worldwide and received over 20 award nominations, including the Carnegie Medal, Branford Boase, Books Are My Bag, Waterstone's Children's Book of the Year and Indie Children's Book of the Year. Her acclaimed live events have featured at Hay, Imagine, Edinburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Bestival, Wilderness and countless literary festivals around the UK.

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