A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out
Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up
with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a
posh English family are guilty of murder.
"This book has bags of humor, bags of heart, and a proper murder
mystery at its core." --Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal
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
countryside: performing a seance for the family matriarch's 80th
birthday. The pair have been friends since before Sophie went missing
when they were seventeen. Everyone else is convinced Sophie simply ran
away, but Claire knows the truth. Claire knows Sophie was murdered
because Sophie has been haunting her ever since.
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. Given her obsession with crime shows--not to
mention Sophie's ability to walk through walls--Claire decides they're
the best people to solve the case. And with the help of the only
obviously not-guilty members of their host family--sexy ex-policeman
Sebastian and far-too-cool non-binary teen Alex--they launch an
investigation into which of last year's guests never escaped the manor's
grounds.
What follows is somewhat irregular detective work involving stealing a
priest's cassock, getting too drunk to remember to question your
suspect, and of course, Chekhov's sparkly purple dildo. As Claire
desperately tries to keep a lid on the shameful secret that would
definitely alienate her new friends, the gang must race against their
own incompetence to find the murderer before the murderer finds them.
