Grave Suspicions (The Lavington Windsor Mysteries #3) (Paperback)
Agatha Raisin meets Sookie Stackhouse, with demons, vampires and bad boyfriends.
She’s back. She’s hungover. She’s got no idea.
Estate agent by day, necromancer by night, reluctant amateur sleuth when bullied into it… Toni Windsor is already juggling life and now she has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room.
And her diary was already full. She’s trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap and – no surprise – her love life still isn’t looking great even though she’s finally dating someone who isn’t dead.
Can’t a girl catch a break?
She’s back. She’s hungover. She’s got no idea.
Estate agent by day, necromancer by night, reluctant amateur sleuth when bullied into it… Toni Windsor is already juggling life and now she has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room.
And her diary was already full. She’s trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap and – no surprise – her love life still isn’t looking great even though she’s finally dating someone who isn’t dead.
Can’t a girl catch a break?
Alice James was born in Staffordshire, where she grew up reading novels and spending a lot of time with sheep. She was lucky enough to have a mother who was addicted to science fiction and a father who was fond of long country walks, so she grew up with her head in the stars and her feet on the ground. After studying maths at university and training to be a Cobol programmer(!), she began writing novels to get the weird people in her head to go somewhere else. She now lives in Oxfordshire with a fine selection of cats, fulfilling her teenage gothic fantasies by moving into a converted chapel with an ancient spiral staircase—and gravestones in the garden. Her go-to comfort dish is a big plate of dumplings, her number one cocktail is a Manhattan and her favourite polygon is a triangle, though she has a soft spot for concave rhomboids.
“Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Gail Carriger.” -- Library Journal
— Library Journal
“Heads up to all fans of True Blood and Buffy, our new favourite heroine is here, she's a necromancer, and she's kind of a hot mess!” – NetGalley review
— NetGalley
“A fun filled, laugh out loud page turner.” -- NetGalley review
— Netgalley
"Toni is perfectly hilarious and the zombies are delightful." -- San Francisco Book Review
— San Francisco Book Review
"Fun, fast debut... Fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse will want to check out Toni." -- Publishers Weekly
— Publishers Weekly
"A gory and amusing romp." -- Financial Times
— James Lovegrove
“A thrilling five-star read.” -- NetGalley review
— Netgalley
“Alice James raises the zombie genre from the grave, dusts it off and gives it a brand new lease of life.” - Jack Hayes
"Dead funny.” -- Mark Beech
— Library Journal
“Heads up to all fans of True Blood and Buffy, our new favourite heroine is here, she's a necromancer, and she's kind of a hot mess!” – NetGalley review
— NetGalley
“A fun filled, laugh out loud page turner.” -- NetGalley review
— Netgalley
"Toni is perfectly hilarious and the zombies are delightful." -- San Francisco Book Review
— San Francisco Book Review
"Fun, fast debut... Fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse will want to check out Toni." -- Publishers Weekly
— Publishers Weekly
"A gory and amusing romp." -- Financial Times
— James Lovegrove
“A thrilling five-star read.” -- NetGalley review
— Netgalley
“Alice James raises the zombie genre from the grave, dusts it off and gives it a brand new lease of life.” - Jack Hayes
"Dead funny.” -- Mark Beech
