A soul-stealing God, another having a mid-life crisis and a mad scientist trying to bring the dead back to life - what could possibly go wrong? Welcome back to the World Of Rock!

Death has had enough.

After millennia of shepherding souls through the great beyond, Dr Death, Eternal Overlord of the Underworld, is burnt out. The hours are long. The clientele is difficult. The complaint department is eternal. So he does what any ancient cosmic entity would do in a crisis. He quits and tries stand up comedy.

Unfortunately, when Death walks off the job, the afterlife does not put up a “Back in Five Minutes” sign.

Souls linger. Ghouls grumble. The natural order begins to wobble like a badly assembled flat pack universe.

Enter Johnny, Paul, Sarah and Celia, four ordinary Earthlings accidentally teleported to the fantastical world of Rock. They were only just getting used to their new powers when Mother Nature herself drafts them into divine crisis management.

Johnny, reluctant telepath and magnet for trouble, must negotiate with a deity chasing applause. Paul is handed the scythe and told to fill in as Grim Reaper before the undead start forming unions. Sarah’s empathic gifts uncover truths best left buried. And Celia, quite possibly the most efficient assassin in any realm, discovers that even gods are not immune to consequences.

What follows is a riotous supernatural adventure of runaway deities, restless spirits and cosmic career changes gone catastrophically wrong.

Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Christopher Moore and Tom Holt, The Trouble with Death blends dark humour, divine dysfunction and portal fantasy chaos into a sharp, fast paced comic fantasy where the gods are flawed, the heroes are reluctant, and the afterlife desperately needs better management.

Because when Death goes freelance, everyone else picks up the tab.

Packed with wit, adventure and an ample dose of the absurd, The Trouble With Death, is a comic fantasy that takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through the hilarious and the supernatural. An uproarious sequel that's guaranteed to keep you laughing until the afterlife.

Perfect for fans of:

Comic fantasy & humorous sci-fi
Parodies & satire with heart
Spoofs of popular culture & human beliefs

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