"Wry, absurdist, and pleasantly cynical, Battersby's [novel] will appeal to fans of Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Terry Pratchett's Going Postal." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Find the dead a King? Tick. Save himself from a fate worse than death? Tick. Win the love of his life? Tick. Live happily ever after...ah.
Having achived so much, Marius don Hellespont was finding life just a little boring. But now something, or maybe someone, has stopped the dead from, well, dying.
So wouldn't you know it, it's up to Marius, incorrigible sidekick Gerd, and Gerd's not-dead-enough Granny, to journey across the continent and put the marching dead back in the afterlife, where they belong.
"Great characters, story, pace, writing." —British Fantasy Society
