When her mother gave up the séance business, it left Ellie in a position to find her own way but not completely, since this is all she knows. Her life hasn’t been easy since she worked alongside her mother as a child talking to the dead. She’s smart and yet, has an innocence and curiosity that makes her likeable. James’ apt turn of phrase is always so very original.Įllie Winter is an engaging heroine. There are many more examples but that one paragraph struck me because I was wondering at that very moment, what is it about this author’s talent that fascinates me? I was answered by that beautiful, descriptive paragraph. If you have any doubt, go to the bookstore and turn to page 259 to read the second paragraph.
James so easily captures the mood and sets a scene for a ghost story with her words that it’s like poetry in motion. There isn’t another author I’ve experienced, yet, who can bring out the atmosphere of the 1920s quite like this author. James is one of the few authors whose books I snag as fast as possible. Can they solve this murder without becoming victims themselves? However, James won’t stop dogging her and he seems sincere in his regrets for his actions with the New Society for the Furtherance of Psychical Research.Īs James and Ellie investigate further into Gloria’s death, the suspect list grows and so does the danger. The attraction she felt then is still there, but Ellie’s distrust and anger at James for what he’d done hasn’t gone away either. Running into James Hawley, a war veteran who ran the tests on Ellie and her mother all those years ago to discredit them, brings up so many feelings of betrayal.
She lives in her mother’s home, wears her mother’s dress when she meets with clients, but Ellie doesn’t do séances any longer. Ellie no longer talks to the dead, but she can’t tell Gloria’s brother no when he asks for her help.Įllie has operated off the radar in London, living a quiet life as a finder of lost things for an income since her mother’s death. Instead, he’s the brother of her former best friend and psychic, Gloria Sutter, who was murdered and left behind a note to have Ellie find her. When she catches a client misrepresenting why he’s come to her, Ellie swears he’s a journalist there to debunk her talent. JamesĬategory: Historical Gothic Romantic Suspenseįormat: PRINT ARC read, available in eBook, Audio as well.Įllie Winter is known as The Fantastique, finder of lost things, a psychic like her mother. An exciting 1920s ghost story featuring a psychic and a war veteran who try to outsmart a killer who seems to have a real dislike for psychics, including the one hunting him!
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