Displeasure Island, Alice Bell
Displeasure Island, Alice Bell
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Displeasure Island
A Mystery

Author: Alice Bell

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2024


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

ALICE BELL grew up in South West England, in the sort of middle-of-nowhere where teenagers spend their weekends drinking Smirnoff Ice in a field that also has at least one horse in it. In 2018 she became the deputy editor of Rock Paper Shotgun, a popular PC gaming website. In 2019 she was named one of the 100 most influential women in the UK games industry. After spending several years in London, Bell now lives in Cork, Ireland, where she watches giant ships, makes crochet animals, and plays video games where you can set things on fire and make elves kiss. She has probably read more detective fiction and watched more episodes of Midsomer Murders than you. Her debut cozy crime novel Grave Expectations came out in 2023.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on September 04, 2024

Still fun, but I missed the personal element the last book had. The mystery in this one was mostly dull for me because it had no stakes for our four main characters. [3.5 stars, rounded up]......more

Goodreads review by Economondos on October 27, 2024

A nice cozy mystery set on an island off the Irish coast with modern British characters. Some great cultural references and interesting dialog.......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on September 11, 2024

I loved more ghosts but unfortunately this one sort of missed the mark. Claire and Sophie are so toxic and terrible to each other. :(......more

Goodreads review by Iris on January 31, 2025

"Claire experienced this as very much like the moment the Riders of Rohan came over the hill in The Lord of the Rings. The effect was only slightly lessened by the fact that Basher had the orange rain poncho on again. But it was still very heroic." Damn, group holidays really can be murder... This tim......more

Goodreads review by Kaylie on February 06, 2025

This book is a mess! I like Alice Bell’s world, these characters. She’s funny in a lovely slapstick sort of way, poignant, insightful about the arrested development of Claire’s situation. But this installment of the series is a disaster. It starts deeply awkward, with stilted writing that speaks of b......more