Grave Expectations

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Claire is a slightly crap medium—not because she's not actually psychic but because she's bad at making a living from it—who's invited to do a gig at the big crumbling country pile of a fairly frightful family of English toffs. The author is very good with astute observations on modern life and pointed comments about the upper classes. It’s considerably harder to solve the mystery since they don’t know who was murdered, and there is a tonne of red herrings and other diversions. Grave Expectations’s “detective” is Claire Hendricks – thirty something, a true crime fan and a medium.

And I've had ridiculously good luck with mysteries this year, most of which are having fun with the traditional mystery format/genre). Why are they hanging around the house and, far more importantly, which one of the Wellington-Forge's committed the murder?

Janice Hallett A delicious mashup of grisly murder, country house and semi-helpful ghosts - imagine a really cockeyed game of Cluedo heavily seasoned with whimsy . Almost-authentic medium Claire and her best friend, Sophie, agree to take on a seemingly simple job at a crumbling old manor in the English performing a seance for the family matriarch's 80th birthday. What follows is an amateur detective cold case murder mystery with a rag tag group of rich relatives, unknown motives and a ghost bestie trying to help out. When Claire is hired to be the entertainment by an old ‘friend’ from University at a family gathering at their country pile, The Cloisters, she can’t afford to refuse.

I liked Claire's unique approach to clue-gathering, both from her advantage as a medium and her isolation from other people forcing her into an observer role. Recently I have read a few murder mysteries with psychics and mediums as the protagonists and I felt that ‘Grave Expectations’ was done well. A funny, distinctive, constantly clever genre-bending supernatural crime novel' - Bookseller You may also be interested in. With no clues at all to go on, apart from a date; Claire, Sophie enlist the help of Figgy’s family members Alex and Basher and together they race to find the body of the deceased and identify their murderer.Grave Expectations by Alice Bell is a really fun paranormal crime fiction debut that kept me interested in both the characters and what would happen.

Light and engaging with great characters ,if you like the TV Series Ghost you will love this book it is charming funny clever and a great read. it's a lot of fun -- Stuart MacBride Read this fabulous book - you will not regret it -- Ben Aaronovitch Knives Out vibes with added ghosts. Clare has been ‘haunted’ by her best friend Sophie ever since the latter was murdered in mysterious circumstances at the age of seventeen. Hired by a rich family for their Nana’s birthday party, Claire and Sophie find themselves drawn into the mystery of an unquiet spirit who, they believe, was murdered by a member of the family.When the hunt for the murderer starts in earnest though, it seems that the mystery takes a back-burner. The teen vs adult and Gen Z vs millennial humour was truly on point, and for a broadly light hearted book, the way it dealt with those griefs too big and awful to look at directly really resonated with me. Despite this traumatic past, Claire and Sophie are still unprepared for what they encounter when they arrive at the manor: a ghost, tragic and unrecognizable, and clearly the spirit of someone killed in a rage at the previous year’s party. Claire runs herself ragged up and down the south coast of England looking for a posh murderer, and the cast of characters and ghosts she meets along the way are fabulous.