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Waking Up Dead
A Mystery
About the author
Nigel Williams is the author of over sixteen novels - including the bestselling Wimbledon Poisoner. He wrote the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren, and his stage plays are performed around the world. He is also the host of the long-running BBC Radio comedy show HR with Jonathan Pryce and Nicolas le Prevost. He has lived in the London borough of Putney for thirty years.Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behavior of everyone around him, it would seem that he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away too - and on the eve of her 99th year, poor dear. Not only that, it could be that they were both murdered.
He feels fine otherwise.
As George's family gather for the birthday-celebration-that-never-was, he hovers around the house, watching and listening, entirely unseen. As a result, he makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmeralda, and his supposedly happy family . . .
One of internationally bestselling author Nigel Williams' best books to date, Waking Up Dead is both a screamingly funny cozy mystery and startlingly strange ghost story asking the question: What would you do if you could bear witness to your own demise?
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Title: Waking Up Dead
Author: Nigel Williams
In the press
“This has the best opening chapter of the year, if not the decade.... This black comedy is Williams's best since The Wimbledon Poisoner; he's the poet of and satirist of genteel southwest London. Please buy it now; you'll thank me.” —Kate Saunders, The Saturday Times (UK)
“A delightful black comedy by a master of the genre... not just cunningly plotted, with some ghoulish twists, but surprisingly poignant.” —Mail on Sunday (UK)
“[A] very funny work... Under this master of suburban comedy we have a breathtakingly hilarious hybrid of Blithe Spirit, Noises Off and Miss Marple... will have you falling off your deckchair with mirth.” —Kate Green, Country Life (UK)
"Williams takes a simple idea—what happens if you are still somehow present after you die?—and makes a meal of it in this droll tale...Fans of understated British humor will be pleased." —Publishers Weekly
"If you love murder mysteries, then here's one for you What makes it unique is it is told from the outlook of one of the victims...You'll find yourself laughing as you turn the pages. Refreshing and on the lighter side."—Night Owl Reviews