Displeasure Island
A Mystery
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Descripción editorial
In the hilarious follow-up to Grave Expectations, Claire and the gang are back, getting their timbers shivered by a mystery involving feuding ghost pirates, buried treasure, and murder...
Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new friends/found family, Basher and Alex, insist, Claire and her dead BFF, Sophie, pack themselves off to a remote Irish island. This tempest-tossed isle is indeed full of noises: not only is the hotel where the gang is staying double booked with a posh private party, the island's crumbling old fort is being fought over by rival ghost pirates. In death, as in life, they're vying over a legendary stash of loot, supposedly hidden somewhere on the island or in the surrounding rough seas...
...which, inevitably, are whipped up into a terrific storm, stranding everyone—living and dead—on the island. Claire is already fighting off anxious And Then There Were None vibes before one of the other guests turns up murdered. With Basher distracted by a handsome Irish seaman and Sophie stretching the limits of her tether to flirt with a dead pirate with dubious intentions, it's up to Claire to solve the mystery of three-hundred-year-old buried treasure and figure out who's picking off party guests—before the whole gang meets a grim, Agatha Christie-like fate.
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In Bell's winning second supernatural whodunit featuring Claire Hendricks (after Grave Expectations), the British medium and her ghost companion investigate shady happenings off the coast of Ireland. Claire's paranormal gifts—triggered after her best friend, Sophie, died and returned to Claire as a specter—come in handy when she and her friends head to Spike Island for a vacation. Legend has it that a pirate ship loaded with treasure sank in the vicinity centuries ago, and the island has attracted gold-seekers ever since. After Claire arrives, the ghost of pirate Cole Tovey appears to her and shares his suspicions that one of the island's living residents is conspiring with another ghost to steal Tovey's fortune. Not long after Claire and Sophie start looking into Tovey's claims, a vacationer is murdered. Then a storm hits, cutting off communication with the mainland. With the stakes suitably raised, and Sophie distracted by her pursuit of a handsome and potentially sinister pirate ghost, Bell puts a clever spin on a time-tested conceit. It's a fast and funny romp.
