The third novel in C K McDonnell's hugely original, fast-paced, very funny and critically acclaimed Manchester- set series revolving around the investigations of
The Stranger Times
newspaper into the weird, the spooky and the supernatural!
Love can be a truly terrible thing.
Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of
, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?
With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn't have come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back together. In this time of crisis, is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone?
As if that wasn't enough, one of the paper's ex-columnists has disappeared, a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in the first place.
Floating statues, hijacked ghosts, homicidal cherubs, irate starlings, Reliant Robins and quite possibly several deeply sinister conspiracies; all-in-all, a typical week for the staff of
The Stranger Times.