New from Gollancz: The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox.
About the book, from the publisher:
DYING IS HELL . . . SOLVING YOUR OWN MURDER IS PURGATORYFollow Adam Simcox on Twitter.
When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own dead body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May.
She's there to enlist him to the Dying Squad, a spectral police force made up of the recently deceased. Joe soon realises there are fates far worse than death. To escape being stuck in purgatory, he must solve his own murder. A task made all the more impossible when his memories start to fade.
Reluctantly partnering with Daisy-May, Joe faces dangers from both the living and the dead in the quest to find his killer - before they kill again.
--Marshal Zeringue