Ten stories ranging from the moving to the macabre, the mundane and the mystical. A romantic novelist with seven children keeps getting interrupted while she is working. A wife returns from the dead to pass judgement on her husband’s new lover. A businessman is surprised one evening when he is paid a visit by the devil. Marr creates a menagerie of offbeat characters and observes the human condition with humour and skill. Mystery and horror aficionados alike will delight in a collection that combines insight, depth, terror and suspense.