The Business of Death: The Death Works Trilogy (Death Works, 3) - Softcover

Jamieson, Trent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316078018 ISBN 13: 9780316078016

Publisher: Orbit, 2011

Synopsis

Steven de Selby has a hangover. Bright lights, loud noise, and lots of exercise are the last thing he wants. But that's exactly what he gets when someone starts shooting at him.

Steven is no stranger to death - Mr. D's his boss after all - but when a dead girl saves him from sharing her fate, he finds himself on the wrong end of the barrel. His job is to guide the restless dead to the underworld but now his clients are his own colleagues, friends, and family.

Mr. D's gone missing and with no one in charge, the dead start to rise, the living are hunted, and the whole city teeters on the brink of a regional apocalypse - unless Steven can shake his hangover, not fall for the dead girl, and find out what happened to his boss - that is, Death himself.

THE BUSINESS OF DEATH includes the first two volumes of the Death Works trilogy, Death Most Definite and Managing Death, as well as the third volume.

About this title

From the Author

    This omnibus edition contains all three Death Works books. 
    Here you can get the whole shape of Steven's story. He's a man who is better than he thinks he is, who scrambles in the dark, who finds a great love and, finally, knows what to do with it.    Oh, and you'll discover (if you haven't already) an Australian city called Brisbane, a city I love.    It's a painful, funny, terrible ride for Steven and his friends (and Brisbane) but what you get is a great read (OK, I may be JUST a touch biased), and not one, not two, but (drum roll, please) three books for the price of one.    I had a great time writing this trilogy, I hope you have a great time reading it.

About the Author

Trent Jamieson has had more than sixty short stories published over the last decade, and, in 2005, won an Aurealis award for his story "Slow and Ache". His most recent stories have appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Zahir, Murky Depths and Jack Dann's anthology Dreaming Again. His collection Reserved for Travelling Shows was released in 2006. He won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best YA short story with his story "Cracks".

Trent was fiction editor of Redsine Magazine, and worked for Prime Books on Kirsten Bishop's multi-award winning novel The Etched City. He's a seasonal academic at QUT teaching creative writing, and has taught at Clarion South. He has a fondness for New Zealand beer, and gloomy music. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. Trent's blog can be found at www.trentjamieson.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316078018
• ISBN 13: 9780316078016
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 864