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A woman opens fire on the North Hollywood Police Precinct and is almost immediately shot dead by the L.A.P.D. Another woman throws herself off the edge of Santa Monica Pier. One is suicide, one is art... Welcome to the world of Charlie & Rose, everyone's favourite ghost detectives. Summoned once again from the afterlife, and cursed by death to only ever be on-lookers into the lives of the living, Charlie and his dog companion Rose do their best to protect the only woman Charlie has ever loved. Life, it seems, is much more complicated than death, and very quickly Charlie & Rose find themselves attempting to untangle a complicated and deadly web of suicide, art, drug gangs and the illegal sweat-shops of downtown Los Angeles. "Dead is Good is wickedly entertaining, hardboiled supernatural deftness."--Gary Phillips"Like 'The Wire' Meets 'The Tibetan Book of The Dead.' Highly Recommended."--Derek Farrell"This is the third in her hopefully continuing series of a dead man and a dead dog. I enjoyed this one even more. Hard to solve or prevent crime when you are dead and that's the brilliant originality of these books. Charles Stone, helped by the dog Rose tries to prevent someone murdering his late wife in LA. Starts with a bang and goes on surprising. Highly enjoyable and unique..."--Eric Idle"DEAD IS GOOD is as smart, funny, moving and original as anything I've read in a long time. Maybe even longer. Highly recommended."-- Dennis Palumbo, author of the Daniel Rinaldi Mysteries"I love these characters - even while we readers don't fully understand their circumstances, how they know where to go, what brings them to this world at certain times. Even while they don't have much better of an idea than we do (at least Charlie doesn't). I love how while they can't interact with their environment, the people they see and events they watch unfold, they are driven to find answers, driven to care about what's happening. There's something about that compulsion - and success they have in figuring things out - that matters more than when Bosch or Spenser or Chin and Smith put all the pieces together to thwart someone.... For a good mystery with oddly compelling characters, once again, look no further than Jo Perry."--The Irresonsible Reader.

Lady Caroline Victoria Genevieve Jane de Montfort (Lady Caz to her friends) made a promise to her (newly deceased) friend George Warren and she intends to keep it -sadly for Danny Bird she's roped him in as her accomplice.And so with Danny's South London pub The Marq left in the 'safe' hands of Ray & Dash (The ASBO Twins) and his indomitable bar-manager Ali roped in as their driver, the trio set off to spend the weekend at the Warren family's imposing country estate Dukes Halt.As they set about achieving their mission, Danny, Lady Caz & Ali are joined by a classic cast of characters including a Hollywood actress, a right-wing Member of Parliament and an Albanian gangster.Shenanigans inevitably ensue.Of course, it wouldn't be an authentic country-house weekend without a murder or two and pretty soon Danny and the gang are on the track of the killer in their midst.As the plot ingeniously twists and turns in every direction Danny wrestles with another deeper, sadder mystery hidden in the pages of a secret diary that he realizes may just hold the key to everything.The dialogue is whip-sharp, the story-telling is hugely engaging, and the plotting is intricate & precise - but we've come to expect all of that from a Danny Bird novel - With Death At Dukes Halt however Derek Farrell has taken all of his usual flair, skill and humour and has elevated them all to new heights with a warmth and maturity that delivers on every level.It isn't an exaggeration to say that with Death At Dukes Halt, Farrell has written the most accomplished novel of his career to date and if there is any justice in the world, one that will bring him the recognition he so richly deserves.

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey." - this quote from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin appears at the start of this extraordinary novel and sets the tone for everything that's to come.David Rockwood Worthington is in prison serving a life sentence for the murder of his 3rd wife and his incarceration is not going smoothly. He's being terrorised by rival gangs who insist he owes them each $6 million dollars - debts of which David claims to be entirely unaware. This perilous situation is complicated by the fact that the Internal Revenue Service wants to talk to him about the $18 million dollars he has stashed in secret Cayman Island accounts - accounts which David also claims to be entirely unaware of. On top of all that, his prison psychologist doesn't seem to like him very much. The central premise of this novel - if it is indeed a novel (the narrator insists it is in fact a warning letter from your soul's previous incarnation) - is that our souls make their eternal journey towards enlightenment in the company of a single unchanging 'karmic pod' of companion souls who take on different roles in each of our incarnations.In one life a soul may appear as your mother, in the next your best friend, in the next your sworn enemy, in the next your lover and so on for eternity. The identities of the souls in your 'karmic pod' are hidden from you in life - this letter/novel seeks to wise you up to who's who in your karmic pod to help you avoid making the same mistakes that landed our David in prison.Souljourner is a cult-classic in the making. It is by turns bizarre, bewildering, hilarious, infuriating and utterly engaging - strap yourself in and prepare to be swept up in this extraordinary karmic rollercoaster of a book.