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Displeasure Island
Alice Bell
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Description for Displeasure Island
Paperback.
'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara
'Delightful' Stuart Turton
'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett
Professional 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?
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781838958442
SKU
9781838958442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alice Bell
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.
Reviews for Displeasure Island
Warm, smart, and laugh-out-loud funny, Alice Bell has done it again - an absolute joy
Andrea Mara, No 1 bestselling author of NO ONE SAW A THING 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!
Stuart Turton, bestselling author of THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE 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
Antony Johnston, author of THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE A cracking romp of a read! An engaging and satisfying murder mystery - Agatha Christie meets Ghosts
J M Hall, author of A SPOONFUL OF MURDER A deliciously fresh take on the classic locked room mystery - fast, funny and furiously brilliant, Alice's voice jumps off the page
Sam Blake, bestselling author of THE MYSTERY OF FOUR A wonderful, hilarious mix of ghost story, murder mystery and an all-too-relatable main character anxiety spiral. I laughed a lot.
Richey Craven, author of SPIRIT LEVEL 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.
Cailean Steed, author of HOME A complete pleasure to read, full of witty writing, loveable characters and page-turning twists
CultureFly
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.
Janice Hallett on Grave Expectations
A delicious mashup of grisly murder, country house and semi-helpful ghosts... it's a lot of fun.
Stuart MacBride on Grave Expectations
Read this fabulous book - you will not regret it.
Ben Aaronovitch on Grave Expectations
Andrea Mara, No 1 bestselling author of NO ONE SAW A THING 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!
Stuart Turton, bestselling author of THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE 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
Antony Johnston, author of THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE A cracking romp of a read! An engaging and satisfying murder mystery - Agatha Christie meets Ghosts
J M Hall, author of A SPOONFUL OF MURDER A deliciously fresh take on the classic locked room mystery - fast, funny and furiously brilliant, Alice's voice jumps off the page
Sam Blake, bestselling author of THE MYSTERY OF FOUR A wonderful, hilarious mix of ghost story, murder mystery and an all-too-relatable main character anxiety spiral. I laughed a lot.
Richey Craven, author of SPIRIT LEVEL 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.
Cailean Steed, author of HOME A complete pleasure to read, full of witty writing, loveable characters and page-turning twists
CultureFly
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.
Janice Hallett on Grave Expectations
A delicious mashup of grisly murder, country house and semi-helpful ghosts... it's a lot of fun.
Stuart MacBride on Grave Expectations
Read this fabulous book - you will not regret it.
Ben Aaronovitch on Grave Expectations