The Accidental Medium
The dead have a lot to say in this first book in a hilarious crime series
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
The Accidental Medium is the first book in a hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become an unwilling crime-solver.
Tanz is a wine-loving, straight-talking, once-successful TV actress from Gateshead, whose career has shrivelled like an antique walnut. She is still grieving for her friend Frank, who died in a car crash three years ago, and she has to find a normal job in London to fund her cocktail habit. When she starts work in a ‘new age’ shop, Tanz suddenly discovers that the voices she’s hearing in her head are real, not the first signs of madness, and that she can give people ‘messages’ from beyond the grave. Alarmed, she confronts her little mam and discovers she is from a long line of psychic mediums. Despite an exciting new avenue of life opening up to Tanz, darkness isn’t far away and all too soon there’s murder in the air.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Romance novelist Whitwell (Love Button) falters with this disappointing paranormal cozy. Tanz, a 30-something actor whose television career has fizzled, is trying to make a go of it in London. Because of her special ability to "know things," some of Tanz's friends call her a "witch," but she considers herself to be "a normal Geordie lass who's perceptive." She does, however, have occasional visions of her friend Frank, who perished in a car crash three years ago, and she hears the odd voice here and there. Desperate for some regular income, Tanz starts working in a new age store called the Mystery Pot. Her boss, Sheila, explains that the voices Tanz hears mean she's clairaudient, and she begins to tune into them more closely. Soon, she makes contact with spirits that lead her to believe someone's been murdered. Against her better judgment, she investigates. Some of Tanz's off-color narration fails to land (she remarks that models "are transvestites with vaginas and don't come from Earth"), and Whitwell offers very little concrete evidence of Tanz's supposedly impressive powers of deduction. Readers seeking supernatural cozies have a bevy of better options.
