The Resource The big chill, Doug Johnstone
The big chill, Doug Johnstone
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Resource Information
The item The big chill, Doug Johnstone represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors' and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can't help looking into the dead driver's shadowy life. While she uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny's ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women's lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Note
- "Nothing is as cold as the grave..."--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781913193348
- Label
- The big chill
- Title
- The big chill
- Statement of responsibility
- Doug Johnstone
- Subject
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- trueDead -- Identification
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
- trueEdinburgh, Scotland
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily businesses
- Fiction
- trueFormer husbands
- trueFuneral homes
- trueFunerals
- trueIntergenerational relations
- trueMissing teenage girls
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMurder victims
- Private investigators -- Scotland | Edinburgh -- Fiction
- trueScotland
- trueSecrets
- trueTeacher-student relationships
- Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction
- trueTraffic accidents
- trueWomen private investigators
- trueWomen -- Family relationships
- Black humor
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors' and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can't help looking into the dead driver's shadowy life. While she uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny's ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women's lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10958520
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnstone, Douglas
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Skelfs
- Series volume
- 0002
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Private investigators
- Undertakers and undertaking
- Families
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Label
- The big chill, Doug Johnstone
- Note
- "Nothing is as cold as the grave..."--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9781913193348
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- The big chill, Doug Johnstone
- Note
- "Nothing is as cold as the grave..."--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9781913193348
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- trueDead -- Identification
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
- trueEdinburgh, Scotland
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily businesses
- Fiction
- trueFormer husbands
- trueFuneral homes
- trueFunerals
- trueIntergenerational relations
- trueMissing teenage girls
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMurder victims
- Private investigators -- Scotland | Edinburgh -- Fiction
- trueScotland
- trueSecrets
- trueTeacher-student relationships
- Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction
- trueTraffic accidents
- trueWomen private investigators
- trueWomen -- Family relationships
- Black humor
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