Jessica recommends... Murder at the Spirit Lounge - Jessica Kidd

Jessica says... Nun-turned-detective Nora Breen returns! Still living in a grim boarding house in the brilliantly named Gore-on-Sea. this time DI Rideout invites Nora to assist his investigation into a suspiciously spooky murder at a seance. Jess Kidd brings the lyrical prose and sinister undertones of her earlier, more gothic, novels, brilliantly balancing a delightful wit and charm with an unsettling sense of the uncanny on this very original iteration of the "cosy crime" genre.

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Sharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen is back, as the latest attraction in Gore-on-Sea turns deadly . . .

On a brilliant December morning, Nora finds her customary seaside walk rudely interrupted: she's been summoned, with Detective Inspector Rideout, to the home of Doreen Chimes, Gore-on-Sea's resident medium. Chimes would like to report a robbery - and to personally invite Rideout to that evening's private séance. It's an invitation he will regret accepting: the evening ends in a suspiciously spooky murder.

And in the coming days, more of the attendees will find themselves in peril. Can Nora figure out who - or what - is behind these spectral killings before it's too late?