the third instalment in this book series. This book follows Tanz, a medium and failed actress, she is need of funds so she signs up to a play with an interesting host of characters. A friend asks for help finding a missing woman and while she is investigating, she stumbles upon Cross Bones Graveyard, where there are unusual occurrences happening leading to an adventure. This was a fast and enjoyable read where Tanz must navigate: a hostile workplace, friendship, romance and hauntings. I would recommend

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Tanz, the actor that accidentally found out she was a medium. Somehow she manages to shamble through life, adjusting to sounds & sight she's rather do without. When she goes to Southwark, after someone asks her to try & trace their sister she is drawn to the undead, unrest at Cross Bones cemetery. This small graveyard was originally for the 'Fallen Women' of the parish- their fall largely due to the cathedral clerics! However there is a lot more going on & Tanz has to cope with the development of her 'gift as well as how to make a living.

I started this series of books by accident (know how Tanz feels!) but it has quickly become a favourite. The style is an easy read the characters keep you engaged. Although this is a ghost story it is not a horror story- although what the undead had gone through was certainly horrific! The story tells of the history of the area & the lives of those who tried to scrape a living there. It really needs to be read as part of the series to get the full impact of the tale. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book- can't wait to see how things progress with Tanz!

The third book in the Accidental Medium series, with Tanz still up to adventures and trying to work out just where she belongs in the world.
Tanz gets a play, and also has a calling to Cross Bones graveyard, where spooky things are happening!
I have really liked seeing how Tanz deals with her powers, and the balance of a normal life, acting and things that go bump in the night!

I have read the two previous books in the series. I adored the first book, the second book I enjoyed, and this third book was just OK.
I feel that this book has lost the initial sparkle that the first book had.
I still adore Tans, she is a great protagonist - but in terms of plot, not a lot happens - I wish this book had a bit more depth and more going on. I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn't recommend reading it as a stand alone - it would still make sense, but you're not invested in the characters as much.

I will still continue with the series, if it does indeed go on - but I will be really hoping that Tracy Whitwell brings back the magic that the Accidental Medium (book 1) had!

Tanz is asked to help find a missing woman. However when she retraces the woman's steps she is drawn to the Cross Bones graveyard where there is significant unrest with the spirits and Tanz is drawn into the middle of it. What doesn't help is that her reluctant gift has just had a power boost, not really what Tanz wanted.
This is the third book in the series and as before I love the characters. The interplay between Tanz, her resident ghost friend and the rest of the usual surrounding characters provide sass and humour. Complete with the mystery of the graveyard and the missing girl you as the reader are kept engaged and turning the pages to see what happens next. I have loved this series from the start and continue to enjoy the pace, style and plots of these stories. Another great read.

Oh my I loved this book. So much atmosphere, emotions and laughs!
Tanz is an incredible character and her mother always steals the laughs for me.
Great continuation and i am really curious whats to come next for our sweet medium. Maybe loads more wine :).

I just loved this book, it’s the first book I have read from this author and it won’t be the last, I’m now going to read the first two books in this series as I really enjoyed reading this book..

Once I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down. I would highly recommend reading this book if you like a mystery book.

I would like to thank MacMillan and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book early.

Tanz's clairvoyant abilities seem to be growing and she is asked to look into the disappearance of a man's sister 10 years before. When she goes to Borough to have a walk down the road of her last sighting, Tanz is drawn to Cross Bones Yard, the old prostitute and pauper's graveyard. There seems to be a lot of ghostly activity there all of a sudden.
She is also dealing with rehearsing for a play where the director is a knob and the writer is jealous of anyone prettier or younger than her.
On the plus side, she seems to have acquired a boyfriend.
Lively and interesting.

The third book from Tracy Whitwell on an accidental medium. Can be read as a stand alone as there is a bit of a recap to update us on what’s happened before. Hugely entertaining!!
Tanz is living in north London and has been persuaded to take part in a play, when her psychic abilities are taking her away to Southwark and Borough market, where she begins to discover all the awful history from two hundred years ago at the Cross Bones cemetery. She is beginning to wonder about which direction to take in life, acting or being a witch!!
As always there are some great characters, lots of coffee and spooky goings on. I thoroughly enjoyed the second half of this book but found the repetition of recaps and lots of history in the first half made me feel a little stuck and that the history had overshadowed the stories of the characters. The ending was for me a little rushed with all the tidying of loose ends. Nevertheless it was huge fun.
Really enjoyed reading this despite my niggles!!
Hugely interesting and recommended for a fab read!
Thank you NetGalley for the early read.

We are reunited with Tanz, actress, bon vivant and accidental medium. I started following Tanz's exploits from book 2 and initially wasn't sure what to make of this straight talking, hard drinking Geordie lass, but now I can't wait to see which way her character will grow and how her storyline progresses.
Tanz is back in London and the events in the North East have awakened her nascent abilities as a medium to a point where she not only can see ghosts and apparitions but can interact with them in their time. Frank guides Tanz to the Cross Bones graveyard in Southwark, a mass grave for the shunned, outcast and poor. There she is overwhelmed by visions and in particular for a family who fled the Irish famine only to find themselves in as dire a situation as the one they left, surrounded by disease (cholera) and slum conditions. The book circles around this family and its descendants, all of whom have connection to the graveyard and who Tanz unintentionally guides due to her strengthened spiritual gifts.
On the acting front Tanz's agent persuades her to do a small play which everyone apart from the playwright and director know is dire. On the upside she meets the wonderful Gerald (old school thespian) and two inspiring young actors Claire and Peter.
Then to love - the babyfaced policeman Neil who we first met in Gin Palace makes his play and Tanz finds he is just the tonic she needs to balance her increasingly out of control life.
Tanz is an engaging character very much inhabiting a world familiar to us all (bar seeing the ghosts!) My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for access to this ARC, all views are my own.

I loved this so much (this is very paranormal heavy, so if you're not into witches, ghosts, mediumship, etc., avoid). I went back and bought the first in the series before I'd finished so that I can see where it all began. Tanz is a medium whose day job is acting, although not a lot of acting, there's not that much out there these days. Her policeman friend/romantic interest, Neil, who knows she has these gifts, asks her to help a friend of his his sister, who disappeared five years previously. During the course of this, she discovers an old cemetery and discovers there's a lot of spirit activity in it. It doesn't appear to be connected to the missing woman, but as she digs in with the help of her friend Sheila, they uncover a sad family story that goes back generations.

The mystery is cleverly done, and there are lots of fun characters - I laughed out loud quite a few times, I like her northern humour! She's also going through a bit of a soul searching period with respect to her life, her job, her gifts, and there's a shift in the future for her.

I loved everything about this, and will be adding it to my TBR pile for the future.

Another interesting book from Tracy Whitwell. We join Tanz whose abilities are getting stronger and takes her to a lot of people who need her help. With the help of Sheila and some people she meets along the way the northern witch is starting to find her way. A lot of research must have been done about Southwark at the time of the Winchester geese and cholera. Despite all the death Tanz makes me smile I love a straight talking northern heroine

I love this author and series so much, I get really excited every time a new one is published.
Tanz is such a fantastic character, she’s nowhere near perfect and has her share of flaws but she’s learning how to live her best life and how to help others along the way. She’s becoming such an amazing, gifted inspirational individual and yet, she’s still so relatable and funny.
I really enjoy the balance between her acting life and her ghostly adventures. Also the history behind the scenes is obviously very well researched and handled with compassion.

Cross Bones by Tracy Whitwell

If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Tracy Whitwell’s character Tanz yet, you’ve been missing out. This bold, sweary Geordie actress and accidental medium is a delight and this is her third adventure in the series. Tanz is being torn in two directions as she reluctantly agrees to do a fringe play in London, but is also suddenly ‘activated’ as her spirit guide Frank explains. She is sent a new guide who she calls ‘Soft Voiced Lass’ and her flat is suddenly teeming with visions and apparitions, including a nurse who is on duty and walks through into Tanz’s bedroom which is quite a feat when you don’t have any legs! Luckily she has friend and fellow medium Sheila to rely on, but there’s a lot of sleeping with the light on. As the play becomes more dramatic off stage than on, Tanz is guided down to Southwark and a cemetery known as Cross Bones. This is the burial place of the Winchester Geese, so called because they were prostitutes licensed by the Bishop of Winchester. After their deaths it was decided they could not be buried in consecrated ground and so this small burial ground became theirs and so many of the poor in the same parish. Tanz is greeted by a horrific vision of the ground in the Victorian period, when overcrowded tenements spread diseases like wildfire and deaths from cholera, typhus and consumption were the daily norm. What Tanz sees isn’t an ordinary graveyard though. The smell hits her first; death, smoke and sewage creates a miasma that seems to cling to your clothes. In the yard Tanz can see a grave digger with a woman screaming at him, when she looks down she can see some fingers and a skull where he has been digging a body up to make room for more. She is overwhelmed and doesn’t really know what her purpose is here, just that it isn’t going to be easy.

I love Tanz because she’s one of the most real people I’ve ever met in a book, despite the spooky stuff that surrounds her. She’ very down to earth, independent and has a few vices. She has a couple of solid friends, especially Sheila, but sometimes she gets lonely, especially as she gets older and sees friends pairing off and making new lives together. She’s in the same flat, still scraping by with no big break in sight. The play she’s rehearsing is comical, with such vivid characters that leap off the page. Gerald is a particularly fun addition to her circle - an elderly actor with the old school manners of a man who was inspired to act by Olivier and Gielgud. Everyone except the playwright knows the play is rubbish and the sexual politics in the company are impossible to work with. At home different visions pop up, from an Irish family who look they’re starving, to a woman at a sewing machine and very strangely, a ghost that lurks in the hallway with a blackened face. She knows all of this must make sense to someone and keeps visiting Southwark and doing her research into the area. The history behind the story is fascinating and had me searching and reading for information afterwards. Eventually the graveyard was used for all the poor in the area and with an influx of families from Ireland, escaping the dreadful famine ( to quote Sinead O’ Connor ‘there never really was one’) overcrowding was common. The place inside that should have been somewhere to view the dead, especially for Catholic families who prefer to have an open coffin, became a charnel house with rotting bodies everywhere from those they had no room to bury and those who’ve been dug up to make room. It’s a vision of hell, made worse when the traumatised gravediggers had compassion fatigue and possible PTSD and started playing skittles with human skulls. No wonder the woman in Tanz’s vision is screaming.

Tanz thinks her visions relate to a single family, the family she sees in a tenement room starving and looking completely shell-shocked by their circumstances and their losses. When Tanz sees a soldier called Robert, shot in the head and looking for his wife she starts to piece things together. Could this be several generations of the same family and could any of them still be alive? Between the spooky action there’s a huge injection of dark humour that I really appreciated. I love Tanz’s slightly prophetic phone calls from her ‘mam’ who strangely seems to always know when her daughter’s up to something while scolding Tanz for meddling in dangerous situations. Thank God she doesn’t find out about the black faced woman, the homeless man and the knife! There’s also a side order of romance in this novel, with a younger police officer stirring up rather unexpected feelings for Tanz. Usually she wouldn’t consider one younger or one or the good guys, but maybe now is the time for changing habits. It’s nice to see Tanz meet someone who likes and respects her for a change. Maybe Tanz has developed some boundaries and boosted her self-worth enough to accept that someone like this could like her. She’s also stopped the habit of always keeping her eye on the exit in her romantic affairs. She’s also taking her gift seriously and maybe has to accept that it’s this type of work that she finds fulfilling. Although, she also makes a radical move in her acting career too. It’s lovely to see Tanz in such a strong position in life, she’s ready to take on the world and I can’t wait for her next adventures.

A really fun series that makes you escape real life. Great fun characters and a really good read different from others in this genre - would recommend

Absolutely love this series! This is the 3rd book, and I read it in a day! I love Tanz and Sheila, they have fully come to grips with their powers, and Tanz gets a boost in this one, which was fun to read as she processed what was happening to her. I liked how it wasn't just a murder she was solving but a story going back generations in one family. I liked how it was all linked together, and the ending was quite sad with Nelly.

I really enjoyed this, but wish I'd read the previous books in the series first. This is very funny about the disappearance of a young woman, and Tanz the medium who looks into it. A very easy read and very funny in places.

I've not come across this series before but after reading this instalment I will definitely be reading the rest! This is such a fun book, full of paranormal activity and it features a really engrossing plot. It was well paced and I loved our main protagonist Tanz, who I found so funny and endearing. Overall this book was exciting and full of heart, a cozy spooky story that would be perfect to read in the Autumn.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

I was so happy when this arrived in my inbox.

I have loved reading Tracy's books since I was bought her forst novel a few years ago and this did not disappoint.

Filled with amazing characters, stories and crazy goings on, everything about it was just 5 stars.

Definitely recommend this book! The right amount of humour, cozy, spooky and giggles! This book was better than the last. Made me laugh so much