Agatha Raisin meets Sookie Stackhouse, with demons, vampires and bad boyfriends.

She's back. She's hungover. She's got no idea.

Estate agent by day, necromancer by night, reluctant amateur sleuth when bullied into it. Toni Windsor is already juggling life, and now she has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room.

And her diary was already full. She is trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap, and - no surprise - her love life still isn't looking great even though she's finally dating someone who isn't dead.

Can't a girl catch a break?

Alice James was born in Staffordshire, England, to a mother who was addicted to science fiction and a father who was fond of long country walks, so she grew up with her head in the stars and her feet on the ground. She lives in Oxfordshire with a fine selection of cats, fulfilling her teenage gothic fantasies by moving into a converted chapel with an ancient spiral staircase--and gravestones in the garden.