SPECTRES, SLEUTHS AND SAUVIGNON - THE MISADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT PSYCHIC (Plus various other people, living and dead. And her cat)
Description
Tanz is a wine soaked, potty mouthed, once successful TV actress, who's career has shriveled like an antique walnut. She is still grieving her friend Frank, who died in a car crash three years ago, and has to get a normal job soon or she won't be able to fund her cocktail habit (or her frequent car trips to visit her best friend Milo and her eccentric family in Gateshead).
When she lands a job in a 'new age' shop in Crouch End, Tanz suddenly discovers that the voices she's hearing in her head, including her friend Frank's, are real, not the first signs of schizophrenia, and 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 a whole new avenue of life opening up to Tanz, and all of the fun and games that entails, darkness isn't far away and all too soon there's murder in the air.
All at once, Tanz and her new friend Sheila are in deadly danger as they try to help a screaming, terrified ghost called Mona and go looking for a body in the woods.
(The following chapters are not for the faint hearted.)
Do not read this book if you don't like sarcasm, alcohol, murder, things that go bump in the night, swearing, gay men, psychics, thespians, messed up families, cats and/or houmous.
SPECTRES, SLEUTHS AND SAUVIGNON is a crazy, joyous, alcohol-soaked murder mystery; a tale for anyone who's ever wondered what on earth this life is all about. (And how to avoid an early and pointless death.)
THINGS THEY SAY...
'Finally, a smart, sexy and self deprecating heroine. Brilliantly witty and compelling, Tanz is intelligent, messed up, hilarious and interested in more than shoes! A proper, decent page turner - with added Spooks; I fell in love with this book within seconds.'
- Rosalind Wylie - 'Everything You Ever Wanted'.
'When it comes to writing page-turners that are very funny, Tracy Whitwell is in a class of her own. With a gutsy, lovable, yet wasp-tongued heroine, SEX AND SPOOKS AND SAUVIGNON is, really, very brilliant.'
- Caroline Smailes - 'The Drowning of Arthur Braxton', 'In Search of Adam', 'Black Boxes'.
'Rejoice...a proper book about a proper woman that I couldn't put down until I'd reached it's final fantastic pages...I laughed my face off, experienced several heart string twinges and had to read the end with the lights on...an addictive and sauvignon-soaked debut...
- Lee Mattinson - 'Me & Cilla', 'Chalet Lines'.
When she lands a job in a 'new age' shop in Crouch End, Tanz suddenly discovers that the voices she's hearing in her head, including her friend Frank's, are real, not the first signs of schizophrenia, and 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 a whole new avenue of life opening up to Tanz, and all of the fun and games that entails, darkness isn't far away and all too soon there's murder in the air.
All at once, Tanz and her new friend Sheila are in deadly danger as they try to help a screaming, terrified ghost called Mona and go looking for a body in the woods.
(The following chapters are not for the faint hearted.)
Do not read this book if you don't like sarcasm, alcohol, murder, things that go bump in the night, swearing, gay men, psychics, thespians, messed up families, cats and/or houmous.
SPECTRES, SLEUTHS AND SAUVIGNON is a crazy, joyous, alcohol-soaked murder mystery; a tale for anyone who's ever wondered what on earth this life is all about. (And how to avoid an early and pointless death.)
THINGS THEY SAY...
'Finally, a smart, sexy and self deprecating heroine. Brilliantly witty and compelling, Tanz is intelligent, messed up, hilarious and interested in more than shoes! A proper, decent page turner - with added Spooks; I fell in love with this book within seconds.'
- Rosalind Wylie - 'Everything You Ever Wanted'.
'When it comes to writing page-turners that are very funny, Tracy Whitwell is in a class of her own. With a gutsy, lovable, yet wasp-tongued heroine, SEX AND SPOOKS AND SAUVIGNON is, really, very brilliant.'
- Caroline Smailes - 'The Drowning of Arthur Braxton', 'In Search of Adam', 'Black Boxes'.
'Rejoice...a proper book about a proper woman that I couldn't put down until I'd reached it's final fantastic pages...I laughed my face off, experienced several heart string twinges and had to read the end with the lights on...an addictive and sauvignon-soaked debut...
- Lee Mattinson - 'Me & Cilla', 'Chalet Lines'.
