The Other Side of Midnight
Ratings8
Average rating3.9
15
Ratings8
Average rating3.9
London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she’s been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter.
Ellie doesn’t contact the dead—at least, not anymore. She specializes in miraculously finding lost items. Still, she can’t refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. Now Ellie must delve into Gloria’s secrets and plunge back into the world of hucksters, lowlifes, and fakes. Worse, she cannot shake the attentions of handsome James Hawley, a damaged war veteran who has dedicated himself to debunking psychics.
As Ellie and James uncover the sinister mysteries of Gloria’s life and death, Ellie is tormented by nightmarish visions that herald the grisly murders of those in Gloria’s circle. And as Ellie’s uneasy partnership with James turns dangerously intimate, an insidious evil force begins to undermine their quest for clues, a force determined to bury the truth, and whoever seeks to expose it…
Reviews with the most likes.
Another memorable heroine from Simone St. James. At the beginning it feels like Gloria is just barely hanging on. She is carrying so much pain and seems afraid to hope. But as usual it ends happy.
3.5 stars, rounded up. The MMC is a bit of an alpha-hole, and the FMC engages in some TSTL* behavior (going to seedy neighborhoods at night by herself with a murderer on the loose). But overall The Other Side of Midnight** is another well-plotted page-turner by an author I wish I had discovered 10 years ago. The post WWI years are a unique setting, with millions of British men killed, wounded and traumatized. In this haunted atmosphere, the presence of ghosts seems inevitable, and the melancholy mood stands in stark contrast to the party all night ethos of the murder victim and her fellow Bright Young Things (England's version of flappers). Both James and Ellie are adrift and alone, but their HEA promises a path out of the darkness together. Bonus points for the loyal, good dog (who is not harmed).*Too Stupid to Live**They should have retired this title after [a:Sidney Sheldon 9068 Sidney Sheldon https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1209169297p2/9068.jpg]'s 1975 blockbuster of the same name.
