The Gloomwood Series
The Grim Reaper's own slice of the afterlife — where broken promises, forgotten gods, and one thoroughly washed-up dead detective are all just trying to get through the day. Dark comic fantasy by Ross Young.
Four Books. One City of the Dead.
Detective Blunt didn't ask for any of this. Being dead was supposed to be the easy part.
Gloomwood — Book One
2012
Augustan Blunt is a washed out cop with a bad attitude, a drinking problem, and a troubled past. Oh, he's also dead — but that's okay, so is everyone else. Someone has stolen the Grim Reaper's head, and Blunt's been told to find it. In a city where the rules of the living don't apply, he's up to his neck in the brown stuff, and he's never been much of a swimmer.
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Gloomwood — Book Two
2021
Teddington Rex is living his best life, star of the daily chat show and darling of the social elite. There's just one problem: his life is the only one there is — everyone else here is dead. Fired and humiliated, Blunt is hired for an impossible task: find someone actually living in the afterlife. Whatever happens, everyone seems to have the same goal — Get Ted Dead.
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Gloomwood — Book Three
2021
There's no such thing as Christmas in the Grim Reaper's own slice of the afterlife, but there is Bleakest Day. Who would steal the Grim Reaper's baubles? Did Detective Blunt remember to get Sarah a present? The afterlife is in turmoil once again, and it's down to Blunt and the few friends he has left to get to the bottom of things. Just don't call it Christmas.
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Gloomwood — Book Four
2023
Millicent Havercroft, a cheese merchant and proud market stall holder, has been beheaded and placed on a shelf in the Gloomwood library. The city is suffering a spate of horrific food poisoning attacks, and worse still — something has happened to the Grim Reaper's mid-afternoon snack. Somebody's cheesed off.
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About the Author
Ross Young was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, in a hospital that has since been knocked down. He spent his childhood in a variety of international locales, and uses this fact to affect an air of the windswept and interesting — badly.
He enjoys diving and travelling, and has lived and worked in various interesting places. Dead Heads was his debut novel and forms part of a series of books set in the city of Gloomwood.
He does not write from experience as, despite his appearance and demeanour, he is not dead.
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