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Waking Up Dead

A Mystery

Nigel Williams
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Pages
336
Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group

About

Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behavior of everyone around him, it would seem that he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away too - and on the eve of her 99th year, poor dear. Not only that, it could be that they were both murdered.

He feels fine otherwise.

As George's family gather for the birthday-celebration-that-never-was, he hovers around the house, watching and listening, entirely unseen. As a result, he makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmeralda, and his supposedly happy family ...

One of internationally bestselling author Nigel Williams' best books to date, Waking Up Dead is both a screamingly funny cozy mystery and startlingly strange ghost story asking the question: What would you do if you could bear witness to your own demise?

Related Subjects

  • Ghost
  • Adult Fiction
  • General
  • Humorous
  • Amateur Sleuth
  • Mystery & Detective

Reviews

"A delightful black comedy by a master of the genre... not just cunningly plotted, with some ghoulish twists, but surprisingly poignant."
Mail on Sunday (UK)
"This has the best opening chapter of the year, if not the decade.... This black comedy is Williams's best since The Wimbledon Poisoner; he's the poet of and satirist of genteel southwest London. Please buy it now; you'll thank me."
Kate Saunders, The Saturday Times (UK)
"[A] very funny work... Under this master of suburban comedy we have a breathtakingly hilarious hybrid of Blithe Spirit, Noises Off and Miss Marple... will have you falling off your deckchair with mirth."
Kate Green, Country Life (UK)

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