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Displeasure Island

The Dead Woke, Book 2

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Displeasure Island

By: Alice Bell
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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About this listen

A detective duo with a difference...

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 West 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?

©2024 Alice Bell (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd Amateur Sleuths Ghosts Horror International Mystery & Crime Mystery Women Sleuths Exciting Crime Detective Murder

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Such an entertaining wild story that although seems fantastical, the brilliant character writing makes it feel totally relatable and as if such mad happening may very well happen to you one day honour rubbish holiday. The story and its hilarious dialogue all suits any age and a clever feel good who done it. Highly recommend.

Relatable entertainment

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Excellent take on a cozy murder mystery. Great follow up and I am looking forward to many more in the series-fingerd crossed.

A great follow up.

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yet again, this totally funny, thoroughly gripping continuation of the best characters I've read about in an age. Well written and well read. I'm really hoping Alice writes a book 3, because I want to find out more about what happened to Sophie and I really want to go on another adventure with them!

a brilliant second book

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Building brilliantly on the foundations of Grave Expectations the gang is in full swing and contributes more weight to the story, the 'rules' of ghosts feel more concrete and I can't wait for what comes next.

A fantastic next step

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Story is great and well plotted. Maiin characters are enjoyable.
Narrator is pretty poor for this one. Awful Irish accents and bad pronunciation of Irish words. With the author living in Cork, I'd have hoped for more care.

Enjoyable read, difficult listen

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Great story and generally good narration but oh my God, the accents were atrocious. Indian/ Liverpool/ Bad American Irish. Very hard to listen to as an Irish person.

Enjoyable story, awful accents!

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This second in the series develops the two main characters and their relationship, less so with the "supporting cast" carried over from the first story. The group trapped on the island and the resident ghosts are an interesting mix of personalities, and the mystery is an engaging one.
It's a nice change from the "norm" in a semi-cosy mystery to have two main characters who aren't actually all that nice and have a fairly disastrous lifestyle.
Excellent narration, helps bring the story to life.

Entertaining and imaginative

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Good characters and different storyline make for an interesting listen. Only negative is personally i'm not keen on the earthy language in places.

great follow up to Grave expectations

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Make sure to read book one first as this has spoilers for that scattered through out. It's actually to this book's credit that there are spoilers as because the last book's events have consequences and affect characterisation nicely in this book.

As good as the first book, mixes it up nicely

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The premise of the story is fine enough - I like the idea of ghosts. However I could not stand the protagonists. I found their banter to be childish and all the swearing felt jarring to hear in an audiobook. I liked all the side characters and different ghosts which salvaged the book for me.

Great side characters not a fan of the protagonists

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