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Living Is a Problem

The Skelfs, Book 6

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Living Is a Problem

By: Doug Johnstone
Narrated by: Sarah Barron
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The Skelf women are back on an even keel after everything they've been through. But when a funeral they're conducting is attacked by a drone, Jenny fears they're in the middle of an Edinburgh gangland vendetta.

At the same time, Yana, a Ukrainian member of the refugee choir that plays with Dorothy's band, has gone missing. Searching for her leads Dorothy into strange and ominous territory. And Brodie, the newest member of the extended Skelf family, comes to Hannah with a case: Something or someone has been disturbing the grave of his stillborn son.

Everything is changing for the Skelfs. . . Dorothy's boyfriend Thomas is suffering PTSD after previous violent trauma, Jenny and Archie are becoming close, and Hannah's case leads her to consider the curious concept of panpsychism, which brings new danger. . . while ghosts from the family's past return to threaten their very lives.

©2024 Doug Johnstone (P)2024 Isis Audio Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Family Life Genre Fiction Mystery Romance Thriller & Suspense World Literature

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Doug Johnstone ticks lots of boxes for me, the politics, pro refugee, pro-Palestine, the music (love the Young Fathers) unusual detectives and shining a light on police corruption. So I’m not sure why the latest books are not hitting for me. Perhaps it’s the way things keep happening to them, which tends towards too much attention on male perpetrators and it sometimes veers between old fashioned ‘hard boiled’ (not my thing) and also philosophical woo-woo (also not my thing.) The narrator is so dreary I’m afraid.

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Doug Johnstone has brought us new science about connectivity and the meaning of consciousness, wrapped in excellent story telling and characters who grow and mature through the series. Beautifully read, too. Please keep writing!

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