The Accidental Medium

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As someone rather partial to the Irish, I adored the relationship Tanz developed with the barman, Pat. I won't spoil anything, but I did wish we had more of their connection. I know the book isn't a love story in any way, shape or form but hey, the sex sounded pretty thrilling to me and I'd have loved a bit more.. because I'm clearly into voyeurism. Not. I really enjoyed this for most of the book - Tanz seemed like a genuine character; I hate to say it but ‘authentic’… until the last couple of chapters that felt as though they’d been dashed off in a hurry by someone else. Scenes that repeat alot, or are unnecessary to the main plot, unnecessarily dragged out scenes, or scenes that are way too short. Tanz is an actress and also an accidental medium - she learned by chance that she can communicate with the dead and this has made her life very interesting indeed.

Gin Palace follows Tanz, a young woman who is still in the process of developing and honing her new powers as a medium. After the events in the first book she really does not want anything at all to do with ghosts anymore, but the ghosts have other ideas. Tanz is a struggling actress with a gift she would gladly not be in possession of: she can talk to ghosts! Poor Tanz has got enough on her plate juggling trying to make her acting dreams a reality with the demands of supply teaching – a profession she is wholly unsuited to! With Tanz feeling as if she is edging ever closer to a complete and utter meltdown, babbling ghosts is the very last thing she needs. But it seems as if things are finally looking up when she gets a paid acting gig in her hometown! Is Tanz on the precipice of superstardom? Or is she about to inadvertently stumble into more ghostly capers?

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The unnecessary and way too casual talk about unhealthy eating habits and how the main character is kind of fatphobic alot. I did enjoy reading the book but I would have liked a bit more to the story and a little more action.

Caroline Smailes, author of The Drowning of Arthur Braxton on The Accidental Medium Spooky and hilarious and brimming with oddball characters, I love this book! I absolutely loved this book. I needed to have a get lost in a book moment or two, so I bought the previous book The Accidental Medium. If you’re wondering, you can read them as standalone books, but they are so humorous and interesting, for the sheer escapism I’d say buy the books! There’s a little bit of everything in them.This is Book 2 in the Accidental Medium series of mysteries featuring Tanz, a once-successful TV actress from Gateshead now living in London. In the first book Tanz discovered that she had the ability to communicate with the corporeally challenged. I enjoyed this book as it took my down memory lane to my years in the North East and Newcastle. It was also in Tyneside that I went with a friend to see my first clairvoyant - an interesting experience. After an interesting twelve years messing about in front of the camera and traveling the world, Tracy discovered she still loved writing and completed her first full length play KABOOM! A son, many stage plays, screenplays and a music video followed, until 2012 when she realized she was finally ready to do the one thing she’d longed to do since she was six. She wrote her first novel, The Accidental Medium – a crime/horror/comedy tale about an alcohol-soaked, gobby, thrill-seeking actress who talks to ghosts. (Who knows where the inspiration came from . . .) The story revolves around Tanz, who's mostly failing to get work in the acting business, so she takes a job working the till at the Mystery Pot, a shop that sells crystals and similar ephemera and specialises in readings by two Mediums - Sheila and Martin. However, Tanz suddenly discovers that she, too, has some psychic abilities.