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Death by numbers

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Una & her colleague Tim are vying for a promotion in the life insurance department of a huge city financial house. So when Una’s latest research – predictions about causes of death in seaside towns – fails to match the number of unusual deaths that are actually happening, she is on the back foot. There are some strange outliers in the data – death by hanging basket? – but even so, the numbers have never let her down before. As if things couldn’t get any worse, Una visits her mum in Eastbourne for the weekend & learns she is getting re-married. Una, still grieving her father’s death, is set against it. However, when she learns that two of the deathly data points she’s looking into were friends of her mum’s flashy new fiancé Ken, she decides to stick around to investigate.

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‘Clever and very funny’ – Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants

‘Eleanor Oliphant meets The Thursday Murder Club– Jessica Irena Smith

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Something doesn’t add up at the seaside… A witty murder mystery perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Ian Moore and the Reverend Richard Coles.

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Una has always been more comfortable working with numbers than people. As an actuary for an insurance company, her job is to spot patterns that other people might miss.

When the data for her latest project – into the predicted number of deaths in seaside resorts – shows a blip in her forecasts, Una’s untarnished reputation at work is at risk. That is, unless she can work out why there’s been an unusual spate of accidental deaths by the coast. Death by hanging basket? She’s not seen that before.

Where better to begin than her mother’s hometown of Eastbourne, where strange fatalities are befalling her mother’s bingo crowd.

But as Una puts her spreadsheets aside and begins to investigate, a sinister pattern begins to emerge and she realises that there is nothing accidental about these casualties . . .

Can Una stop the killer in this small seaside town, before she becomes a not-so-vital statistic?

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‘Witty and fun’Woman’s Own

‘A terrifically funny, endearing read’ Belfast Telegraph

‘A impressive debut full of unusual ideas and amusing relationships’Morning Star

Additional information

Weight 0.254 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 2.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

352

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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