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Displeasure Island: 'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara(Grave Expectations)

Displeasure Island: 'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara(Grave Expectations)


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'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara'Delightful' Stuart Turton'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice HallettProfessional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago. But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?

About the Author :
Alice Bell grew up in South West England, in the sort of middle-of-nowhere where teenagers spend their weekends drinking Smirnoff Ice in a field that also has at least one horse in it. She is the deputy editor of Rock Paper Shotgun, a popular PC gaming website, and in 2019 she was named one of the 100 most influential women in the UK games industry. After spending several years in London, Alice now lives in Cork in Ireland. She has probably read more detective fiction and watched more episodes of Midsomer Murders than is sensible. Her debut novel, Grave Expectations, was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. Displeasure Island is her second novel.

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Warm, smart, and laugh-out-loud funny, Alice Bell has done it again - an absolute joy Delightful. The mystery trips you up every ten pages, the characters feel like mates, and it's effortlessly funny - which is so hard to do. I adored this. It deserves to be enormous! Claire and Sophie are both hilarious and gut-wrenching, often in the same sentence, and once again Alice Bell has ghosted up a brilliantly puzzling murder. I loved it A cracking romp of a read! An engaging and satisfying murder mystery - Agatha Christie meets Ghosts A deliciously fresh take on the classic locked room mystery - fast, funny and furiously brilliant, Alice's voice jumps off the page A wonderful, hilarious mix of ghost story, murder mystery and an all-too-relatable main character anxiety spiral. I laughed a lot. A hilarious, warm and clever mystery. Fair warning - do not attempt to read this on the bus, as you will alarm members of the public when you start snorting with laughter and cannot stop. A complete pleasure to read, full of witty writing, loveable characters and page-turning twists Fast, funny and furious, this book has bags of humour, bags of heart and a proper murder mystery at its core... Bell is one to watch. A delicious mashup of grisly murder, country house and semi-helpful ghosts... it's a lot of fun. Read this fabulous book - you will not regret it.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781838958435
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Corvus
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 37 mm
  • Weight: 686 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1838958436
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Grave Expectations
  • Sub Title: 'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara
  • Width: 165 mm


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