The Stranger Times - winner of the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Love can be
a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times especially when one of you
is dead. Vincent Banecroft the irascible editor of The Stranger Times has never believed his
wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now against all odds it seems he may
actually be proved right but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her? With
Banecroft distracted the shock resignation of assistant editor Hannah Willis couldn't have
come at a worse time. It speaks volumes that her decision to reconcile with her philandering
ex-husband is only marginally less surprising than Banecroft and his wife getting back
together. In this time of crisis is her decision to swan off to a fancy new-age retreat run by
a celebrity cult really the best thing for anyone? As if that wasn't enough one of the paper's
ex-columnists has disappeared a particularly impressive trick seeing as he never existed in
the first place. Floating statues hijacked ghosts homicidal cherubs irate starlings Reliant
Robins and quite possibly several deeply sinister conspiracies all-in-all a typical week for
the staff of The Stranger Times.
