Death and Other Occupational Hazards

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781804995044
  • Weight: 256g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'Fall in love with this likeable and flawed version of the not-so-grim reaperCULTUREFLY

Who better to solve a murder than Death herself?
Good Omens meets Katy Brent in this wickedly funny, joyful and twisted murder mystery.


'I could practically hear Louis Armstrong crooning What a Wonderful World in the background' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Beautifully bonkers' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I laughed, I cried (no, seriously, I ugly cried). . . wanted to read it all over again' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Death is having an existential crisis – and honestly, she needs some time off. But the minute she arrives in London for a well-earned break, everything goes terribly wrong:

1. People still insist she’s a scythe-wielding skeleton in a black sack. Spoiler: she’s a woman who'd love a wardrobe upgrade, thanks.
2. Life, her sanctimonious sister, blames her for, well, everything.
3. A string of murders occurs off-schedule. Nothing ruins a holiday quite like an admin disaster.
4. A charming (sexy) scientist shows up, and, of course, he’s hiding something.
5. And she’s stuck in a mortal body . . . while there's a killer on the loose.

But she’ll be fine, right?

After all, who better to investigate a murder than Death herself?


SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE

Praise from authors and critics:

'One of my favourite books of any year' IAN MOORE


'A total SCREAM' JANICE HALLETT


'There are shades of Terry Pratchett in Dapunt's debut novel . . . An entertaining page-turner with plenty of metaphysical fun and games' THE GUARDIAN


'Wickedly irreverent and clever' IRISH INDEPENDENT


'Gripped me from the start and kept me hooked to the end' DAILY MAIL


'A constant grin of a novel' SFX


'Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined. . . it made me fall more in love with life' LUAN GOLDIE


'A tour de deathly force' ALICE BELL

Veronika Dapunt is a British-Austrian writer. Her debut novel, Death and Other Occupational Hazards, was a runner-up for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize. She has always had a love of the darkly comic and the absurd, quite possibly the reason why her first career was in law. Veronika holds a degree from the University of Oxford and currently lives in London.

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