Figgy's family home is the sort of place where a selection of ghosts are quite likely but Claire always has one with her - her friend, Sophie, who disappeared when she was seventeen. And presumably the book series will eventually end when Sophie's murder is solved and she can move on, but that's me guessing.

They team up with the least unbearable members of the Wellington-Forge family – depressive ex-cop Basher and teenage reactionary Alex. Together they must race against incompetence to find the murderer – before the murderer finds them… in this funny, modern, media-literate mystery for the My Favourite Murder generation. Started well ie haunted mansion, family secrets, seance but got dull and boring once the group left for Brighton.I will say that I think the humour is pitched at fairly specific audience of nerdy/online millennials, so if you're not in that cohort some of this may not work for you. Claire’s been booked as the entertainment at a family birthday party for one of her uni friends’ grandmothers. It was a laugh a minute investigation conducted by forgetful, sometimes drunk sometimes just dumb people who are just as good at ‘doing’ an organised investigation as you or I would be!

Together they must race against incompetence to find the murderer before the murderer finds them, in this funny, modern, media-literate mystery for the My Favourite Murder generation. Do you, for example, enjoy the visual metaphor of a dom National Theatre topping the boats in the Thames over which it looms? Sam Blake A really unique concept paired with whip-smart writing and lots of heart -- Heather Darwent, author of The Things We Do to Our Friends A clever and playful contemporary cosy mystery by Cobh-based debut author, the talented Alice Bell.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. 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. The Seance uncovers a murder and Claire and Sophie must try to solve a secret murder, with an unknown victim, an unknown motive and of course an unknown killer!