Book description
When Victoria is called in to investigate the theft of valuable
marble statues from a north London cemetery, she soon finds out the
lives of the cemetery staff are as tangled as the undergrowth which
surrounds them. Vic's plan is to nail the thieves and stay out of
harm's way, but things don't work out as she expects. A lot of
surveillance work takes place at night-a time when the cemetery
becomes dangerous. A maniac is on the loose, but nobody thinks to tell
Victoria. Also, one of the management is having perverse liaisons
among the gravestones with the security staff, and the rest of the
workers are up to no good.
What begins as a routine job soon turns into a murder inquiry. A
body is found which shouldn't be in the ground yet. Unfortunately, the
police are less than co-operative and when one of the grave diggers is
charged with murder, Vic is convinced they've got the wrong man. To
add to this, her current lover is getting friendly with the
manipulative Chloe, the cemetery assistant manageress, and her family
problems are escalating. How can Vic find time to see that justice is
done and wrap up her own investigation?
