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Satan is made redundant from Hell and sent to live in suburbia. Getting fired can ruin a day… especially when you were the Prince of Hell. Will Satan survive in English suburbia?

Alien gods are coming to devour our world. But someone needs to do the paperwork. Follow Morag Murray as she joins the government department tasked with making sure the end of the world goes as smoothly as possible. Combining cosmic horror, workplace comedy and found-family chaos, the Oddjobs series is about ordinary people trying to keep going long after the situation has stopped being remotely manageable. Enjoy books 1-3 in this boxed set. Unstoppable horrors from beyond are poised to invade and literally create Hell on Earth.

The problem with having human friends is that they never last… When his friend, Ben, is attacked and left for dead, Jeremy Clovenhoof realises that his friends are squishy, mortal and – shockingly! – getting old. But this earth-loving devil isn’t going to let the grim reaper take away those few people who have learned to put up with him. Whether they like it or not, he’s going to subject his friends to an exercise, diet and health regime that will keep them young – even if it kills them!

Christmas at Hedgelord Garden Centre should be simple. But when one of those Santas goes rogue and films an incriminating adult movie, with Hedgelord’s grotto as the backdrop, sales manager Charlotte Mitchell finds herself in the middle of a festive disaster. The only way to save Hedgelord’s reputation is to track down the wayward Santa and secure the footage before it’s released. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one on the case — Jack Hartigan, her infuriatingly charming rival from Bloomers garden centre, is also in pursuit. Worse still, Santa has already fled to Lapland.

Charlotte Mitchell is determined to put Hedgelord Garden Centre at the heart of the community where it belongs. All she needs is the perfect festive season—lights, decorations, Santa, and the biggest Christmas display in town. But there’s just one problem: Jack Hartigan, her infuriatingly charming rival from Bloomers Garden Centre, has the same idea.

It’s nearly Christmas, and Hedgelord Garden Centre is under new ownership — but something isn’t right. Sinister figures in black have taken over the shop floor, efficiency is at an all-time high, and nobody seems to know exactly who’s in charge or what they’re building in the warehouse. Charlotte Mitchell would love to get to the bottom of it, but she’s got bigger problems. Thanks to a spectacularly bad decision, she and her longtime rival Jack Hartigan have just destroyed the town’s famous nativity scene — and promptly been sacked.

Can saving someone be the biggest mistake of your life? PR consultant Hannah Douglas-Jones makes her living managing other people’s reputations. But she finds herself involved in a story like no other when she stops at the scene of a house fire and pulls a young woman from the flames.

After losing her job at an exclusive London hotel, Penny Slipper is only too happy to help when her grandma asks her to take charge at the Cozy Craft sewing shop in charming rural Suffolk. With cousin Izzy on hand as the expert dressmaker and Penny’s head for business, what can possibly go wrong? But Penny’s in town for less than a day when the local librarian is poisoned and Penny fears she might even be accidentally responsible. Penny and Izzy are forced to turn detectives to uncover the true cause of death, while finishing a costume commission for their first customer.

A wedding is a cause for celebration. Not only do dressmakers Penny and Izzy get an invite to the big day but they have an unusual dress commission to complete for one of the guests. It seems Penny’s only problem is deciding which potential boyfriend to take as her plus-one guest — practical handyman Aubrey or cultured fabric expert Oscar. But bigger problems arise when the maker of the wedding cake is found dead in the grounds of the stately home where the wedding is to take place. Can Penny and Izzy unravel the mystery and solve this crime before the big day is fatally ruined?

Things are going great for Penny Slipper. Running a sewing shop in the middle of the English countryside is like a dream come true and she’s got her colourful cousin Izzy and her corgi, Monty, to keep her entertained. Her grandma’s eightieth birthday is coming up soon and Penny and Izzy are busier than ever, making fancy dress costumes for the party guests. However, Penny’s dream life is thrown into chaos when a murdered woman is found in the bathroom of her cosy flat above the shop. With the doors and the windows all locked, no one can understand how this mystery corpse got there.

When your memories are missing, how do you know you’re not the one to blame? A year after a carbon monoxide accident left five people dead, Cassie O’Donnell wakes from a coma to find her life erased. She’s homeless, unemployed, and her mind is filled with shadowy memories she can’t trust.