Grave Expectations (2025) by Rob Johnson.
IMDb meta-data is 290 pages, rated 4.31 by 55 litizens.
Genre: krimi.
DNA: Brit.
Verdict: Diverting.
Tagline: Ineptitude has a few rewards. Very few.
Three hapless friends, having tried their luck at bank robbery and failed miserably, end up running a funeral parlour somewhere near Gatwick southwest of London. They aren’t very good at that either.
Then Madame Lash threatened to dob them in for their failed bank robbery, unless they help her…rob a bank. Well, they do have form and it is the same bank. What follows are wheels-within-wheels as the villains scheme against each other even more than the bank.
Then there is Alicia, the morgue technician in the basement of the funeral business where she rules the domain of the dead. I would have liked to read more of her exploits.
I read it pretty much in one sitting during our visit to Bathurst in western NSW. It is third in a series about this triumvirate.