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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

World's End Bureau, Book 1

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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

By: Alys Clare
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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London, 1880. When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are sceptical.

How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond the grave? But after she attends a seance at the Stibbins family home, Lily comes to realize that Albertina is in terrible danger. And soon, so is Lily herself....

©2019 Alys Clare (P)2019 Oakhill Publishing
Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Private Investigators Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage
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I loved this book. Great character development. Interesting and engaging and the narrator was perfect !

Very underrated!

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Good storyline and characters have depth. Reminded me of the Barker and Llewellyn series. looking forward to book 2

Better than I expected. Well nqrrated.

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A very intriguing story with a clever plot that keeps you wanting to know what happens next till the very end.

Amazing book

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I try to to cut some slack for first book in the series, as in addition to plotting the author has to introduce an entire world for the main character to inhabit. I felt she did that well enough here, while still maintaining some sort of mystery about Lucy's father's death, and implied tragic episode in India. Felix proved an interesting enough character, though I kept seeing him as perhaps a bit older than intended.

In critic mode, I'll say that I did get a feel at times that these were modern characters dropped into a Victorian setting. Was "the F Word" really all that common, as Felix uses it on more than one occasion? Similarly, the journalist's feminism was a bit heavy-handed for the time I thought. It's possible that a woke male might have existed, but here it felt contrived.

I do hope that he, and the actress, are both intended as regular series secondary characters. On the other hand, I'm a bit concerned that the sailor might prove part of a love triangle, which really would be a negative for me.

Excellent narration! The present tense was something I got used to, though it never really bothered me much.




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