The Problem with Tardiness

A woman dies in Wales. The paperwork does not add up.

 

Jackie Harness, senior angelic detective operating under Big Red is called in on what looks like a routine misfile. But, shockingly, within a week Jacks and Co are up to their necks in a case that nobody above them wants investigated and nobody below them is allowed to touch.

 

A fourth-century memo. A sealed atrium. A Prince of Lust on professional secondment. A seventy-year-old demon taking early retirement into a Stockport-Elsewhere cottage he isn’t supposed to qualify for. A landlady on Old Compton Street who knows more than she is saying and pours a better pint than anyone has a right to expect.

 

By the end of the week, the team have discovered that Heaven has been quietly running on a clerical error for four millennia, the error is about to catch up with everyone, and the only room in London with the standing to house the response is the back bar of a pub called the Poetic Goat.

 

Investigating takes them across London, the Vatican, the Underworld, Chicago, Paris, Vegas, and eventually into Hell itself.

 

Book One opens the case. The case does not, on balance, close.

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