Definitively dark and disturbing but slow burning and rather repetitive. Grace deep cleans - bodies, houses, secrets. A grim job at the best of times. She's sympathetic and highly annoyed at the neglect of the dead, generally found some time after death. No-one knows them enough to care about them. She herself is a loner and has what, to me, is a disturbing habit of making dolls houses based on various of her clients. I reckon she's well along the Autistic Spectrum which wouldn't have been helped by her abusive father. As I said, slow burning so I'm afraid that I never got as far as any of the promised twists, or even really engaged. with the story. Thanks to NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

Grace McGill, described as a shy recluse, cleans up peoples houses after they are found dead usually of natural causes. This book follows Grace as she comes across a death that doesn't seem natural.

The book is a slow burn mystery. I found things to be very slow for the first half of the book, so much so that I almost gave up on it more than once. It does pick up pace during the second half and has quite the plot.

But as good as the mystery is, the execution of the story is off as the narrative is messy and the characters feel flat.

Grace McGill is no doubt an interesting woman but this book doesn't do her justice.

Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the e-ARC. I appreciate the opportunity.

Grace McGill is a loner. She lives alone, she works alone. Her work is her life. She is the person called upon to clean up when a body has been discovered in a property weeks or maybe months, in some cases many months, after death. It is a difficult, unpleasant job, but one Grace feels compelled to do. She feels duty bound to do this job, if not her, then who? Whilst doing one particular clean up, Grace becomes intrigued by a photo and a collection of old newspapers, each with the same date though different years. With her usual attention to detail, Grace decides to search out what they mean, and, like everything else that Grace does, it becomes and obsession.

This story is told from the narrative of Grace, and the reader really gets into her mindset, we live her obsessions and compulsions, even though we know she is in danger.

When I started this book, due to its subject matter I thought it wasn’t for me. When I realised I had read 50% of the book without a break I knew I was hooked! Absolutely compelling, totally absorbing and very macabre! I loved it.

Thank you NetGalley.

Thank you to Rachel from Houghton & Stoddard! She messaged me about this great new book and invited me to read it. I was intrigued by the premise and gave it a go.

All I can say is wow! I could not stop reading it. So many twists and turns and such a unique concept. Please consider changing the title-it is almost too descriptive!

Thank you for the chance to read this I give it 5 stars. Not giving anything away but know that Grace will stay with you for while after you finish.

I'm not sure I can review this without giving away spoilers......So I will just have to shout from the rooftops how good this is. It starts off a seemingly pedestrian thriller and then...............well you just have to read it to do it justice. This is a great thriller, with a compelling lead character, great plotting and a brilliant twist that I'm still reeling from.

I enjoyed this very much. I finished in a sitting I just needed to know the ending. Highly recommend. Can’t wait for more by author!

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read an ARC of this book. I really enjoyed it it was so different from what I was expecting and I read it in two sittings because I needed to know what happened. I will be recommending it to everyone I know.

Set in Glasgow this book centers around Grace McGill; a death cleaner who specializes in cleaning up homes where people had died and were undiscovered for some time. Grace lives a largely solitary life where she lives with her rescue cat and navigates through a complicated relationship with her father. She becomes involved in solving a mystery triggered by one of her jobs. This psychological drama has a great plot with lots of twists and turnes and I enjoyed the character development. I hadn't read a book by this author before but will watch out for him in the future. Solid 4 stars and recommend. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

Entertaining thriller. Grace cleans the flats and houses of those who have died and lain undiscovered for a time. Not a nice job but she does it well and respectfully for those who had noone looking out for them;. But she begins to see a pattern in the deaths of some of the elderly people and a teenager who went missing more than 50 years ago. Well plotted and paced. Pleasing read.

However disturbing and 'TMI' the earliest chapters seem, don't make the mistake of putting this book aside. Yes it's dark and disturbing early in the story, but we'll worth sticking my with. Grace, a loner and social misfit, has the distasteful job of cleaning the homes of the not so recently dead, largely people who like her were alone. She becomes obsessed with an old photo she's come across while working a particularly messy home, and this leads her investigate the history of the deceased person and his four friends in the photo with him. A truly dark and surprisingly addictive thriller.

Creepy, compelling and totally captivating, I absolutely loved Grace McGill.

I'm a huge fan of crime and thriller, as well as true crime and podcasts, and I remember being horrified and fascinated at the idea of after-death cleaners who come in to do the dirty job nobody else can bear to do. Grace McGill specialises in the undiscovered deaths, the ones where people have laid unfound for weeks, even months.

This story evolves from a morbidly fascinating peek into Grace's dark world into a truly captivating thriller as she attempts to understand the mysterious circumstances behind several deaths and one girl's disappearance decades ago. I definitely won't forget Grace in a hurry...

I really wasn't sure what to expect from this book...a procedural type story?

I was happily enjoying what seemed a pretty standard thriller when it took a left turn I was NOT expecting. And I really loved it!

Hugely enjoyable and I would definitely recommend.

Whew! I need to decompress after reading The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill.
Grace is a cleaner of long undiscovered deaths and the contamination as those death results.
Supposedly deaths of elderly, lonely people, but all is not as it appears.
C.S. Robertson had me tied up in knots trying to mentally stay a step ahead, but the ending might not be what you see coming!
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Think you have a bad job? Think again. Grace McGill is a death cleaner
Think you are lonely? Think again. People die and lay lonely Undiscovered in their homes for months
Think you know where your moral compass stands? Think again, put yourself in this book's characters shoes and pick honestly a decisive choice faced with the same situations they face
A refreshing original gripping, engaging finely written dark twisted thriller.
I absolutely loved it.

The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill is like nothing I’ve read before and quite simply I couldn’t put it down.

Grace McGill had a rather unique job. When someone dies and is left undiscovered for an my period of time, she enters the property and cleans up what’s left behind be it clutter, human remains or dark secrets. When an old man is discovered in his flat months after he died, it seems to be an unremarkable like and unnoticed death, but Grace knows there is more to this. She sets about cleaning up in more ways than one.

It’s dark and compelling. It gets its teeth into you and hangs on the the very last page. A very worth five stars. Thank you to NetGalley, Hodder & Stoughton and the author for the chance to review.

Grace McGill is not who she seems. She's quirky, withdrawn and yet compassionate to a fault. Grace is quirky in her own right especially with what she does as a career. She's a crime scene cleaner. Not just any crime scene cleaner, she cleans up after people who have died and were not discovered right away, the forgotten.

Grace's character is unique, especially in her personality and attitude. This also helps me keep on reading as at the time the story can be extremely slow in development. The first few chapters are annoying as the author repeats how difficult Grace's profession is and which type of chemicals she used to clean up. It's a repetitive issue. Push through these slow parts and repetition and in the end, I was not disappointed. This is a unique read that should not be passed up.

Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley for letting me read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very interesting book a little slow at first but very engrossing. Grace is a quirky complex character who lives her life cleaning up after people who've died and not been discovered for a while. the people get inside her head and heart. There is also a mystery that goes back to 1964 that is connected to some of the people that have died an nteresting twist that I didn't predict. It touches on the themes of loneliness and isolation and the many secrets that people carry

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

I loved this one. Very fast paced, had me turning pages as I tore through it – I had to see how it would end. The characters were well rounded and the narrative felt believable. Gave me chills. Solid five

What the book about?

Grace is a professional death cleaner. She cleans up after the people who have passed away alone - which includes the clutter left behind or the bodies that lay forgotten. She does her best to give the deceased some dignity and respect so she goes over and above her job responsibilities. Things change for Grace when she has to clean up after an old man who lies undiscovered in his flat for 5 months. His death went unnoticed but Grace is convinced that his secrets are connected to a crime that has plagued the locals for decades.

My thoughts:
I thoroughly enjoyed Grace's complex character and how she had so many secrets herself. Robertson pays attention to detail around death and it creates a compassionate but creepy setting. I loved that adding the dioramas amped the disturbing levels even further. I did find the switch from Grace's job to becoming a murderer very sudden but that's probably because I didn't see it coming.

Unusual way to approach death as possible crime. Fascinating insight into what follows when someone is left weeks/ months after death. The whole process and the personal views and responses of the woman who has the job get suspicions about a few of them. A serial or mercy killer? You’ll have to read to find out!

For publisher and author
I’ve based this review on the first half of the book only. There a so many editing issues (names without capital letter; dropped lines etc) that I could not fully experience the quality and enjoy the book. I WILL purchase once published but would add that first 20% felt like a ‘How to do the job and why’ and I nearly gave up.