The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly claimed their lives. Their funeral-director and private-investigation businesses are back on track and their cases are as perplexing as ever. Matriarch Dorothy looks into a suspicious fire at a travellers' site and takes a grieving homeless man under her wing. Daughter Jenny is searching for her missing sister-in-law who disappeared in tragic circumstances while granddaughter Hannah is asked to investigate increasingly dangerous conspiracy theorists targeting a retired female astronaut. . .putting her own life at risk. With a body lost at sea funerals for those with no one to mourn them reports of strange happenings in outer space a funeral crasher with a painful secret and a violent attack on one of the family the Skelfs face their most personal - and perilous - cases yet. Doing things their way may cost them everything. . .

Part of the Skelfs series.