A Dark Matter

When Jim Skelf died Dorothy, Jenny, and Hannah were left to run the family funeral parlour and private investigation agency. This could only be described as a sharp learning curve for the three women as they also struggled with the loss of Jim - a husband, father and grandfather.

Dorothy was forced to wonder how well she knew her husband when she discovered that he had been making regular payments into the bank account of a woman she did not know. Discovering the truth about this matter is a major, but not the only, plotline in the novel. When Hannah's friend, Mel, disappears Hannah focusses on finding out what happened to her, Jenny is asked to investigate a case of possible adultery while Dorothy and Hannah attempt to discover why objects are disappearing from the home of an elderly gentleman. There are also funerals to attend to.

Descriptions of Edinburgh feature in the novel while the three women undertake their investigations and also come to terms with their grief. This is possibly the first in a series of books about the Skelfs.