Saint Death's Daughter

Lanie Stones grows up in a crumbling mansion in Liriat, the daughter of the Royal Assassin and the Chief Executioner. She has a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, which makes her an odd child for such a household. Her companion and guardian is Goody Graves, an ancient revenant and her oldest friend.

Then her parents are murdered. Lanie and her sister Nita, who is cheerfully psychotic, inherit a heap of debts. If they cannot pay, they lose the ancestral home, and Goody goes with it.

The sisters ask Liriat's ruler for protection and get no answer. Soon the ruler is murdered too, and the future of the nation is uncertain. This is dark fantasy with a comic edge, in which death is an everyday fact and sometimes a joke.

Lanie is hunted by Liriat's enemies and pressed by her family's creditors. She is also terrorised by the ghost of her great-grandfather. The goddess of Death is on her side, but whether that is enough to see her through the coming months is the question the book turns on.