Grave Reservations: A Novel (Booking Agents Series Book 1)

By Cherie Priest

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series. Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. Impulsively re-booking Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt’s flight, she has no idea that her life is about to change in ways she could have never foretold. When his original plane blows up on the runway, Grady begins to suspect that Leda’s special abilities could help him with a cold case he just can’t crack. Despite her scattershot premonitions, she agrees to join the investigation for a secret reason: her fiancé’s murder remains unsolved. Leda’s psychic abilities couldn’t help that sad case, but she’s been honing her skills and drawing a crowd at her favorite bar’s open-mic nights, where she performs her klairvoyant karaoke—singing whatever song comes to mind when she holds people’s personal effects. Now joined by a ragtag group of bar patrons and pals, Leda and Grady set out to catch a killer—and learn how the two cases that haunt them have more in common than they ever suspected. “The half-psychics, female friendships, and mystery of a dead fiancé make it fun, but it’s the story of every woman’s second act that makes Grave Reservations shine. It’s exactly the witty escape read you need right now” (Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors).

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Published Oct 26, 2021

300 pages

Average rating: 7.56

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julireads
julireads
7/10 stars
Fiction Crime Fantasy Mystery
Paukku
Paukku
10/10 stars
Full disclosure, I'm a huge Cherie Priest fan. She can write like nobody's business and I love her world-building. This is really four and a half stars but I'm rounding up because Cherie is awesome. I also adore mysteries, having ben introduced to them by my bibliophile mother at an early age. My usual opinion of putting anything supernatural in a mystery story is that it is a bit of a cheat: there's no way for the reader to solve a mystery that is only solvable by supernatural means. But Priest makes this work. I did not feel cheated and in fact she scattered the clues very cleverly so even us non-clairvoyant humans could follow them. I'm glad one of my favourite horror and steampunk authors made a foray into the mystery genre.
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Jensue
8/10 stars
Great book... I couldn't put it down.

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