Displeasure Island

Alice Bell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Publishing:2nd Jan '25

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 2nd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Displeasure Island cover

'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara

'Delightful' Stuart Turton

'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett

Group holidays are always murder...

An unfinished wellness retreat was not Claire's first choice of holiday destination, but it turns out that amateur murder investigation pays even less well than professional mediumship.

So Claire, her oldest friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their new friends, Basher and Alex, head for Spike Island (off the coast of Ireland) for some R&R.

But when one of the other guests turns up dead, Claire finds herself the chief suspect.
Can she solve the murder, clear her name and escape the group holiday from hell before it becomes permanent incarceration?

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 *

ISBN: 9781838958466

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm

Weight: 284g

416 pages