The Skelf women live in the face of death every day running a funeral directors and private investigators in Edinburgh and their own grief intertwines with that of their clients as they reel from shocking past events. A fist-fight by an open grave leads Dorothy to investigate the possibility of a faked death while a young woman's obsession with Hannah threatens her relationship with Indy and puts them both in mortal danger. An elderly man claims he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife while ghosts of another kind come back to haunt Jenny from the grave . . . pushing her to breaking point. As the Skelfs struggle with increasingly unnerving cases and chilling danger lurks close to home it becomes clear that grief in all its forms can be deadly . . .

Part of the Skelfs series.