From the title of this book (and also the brief synopsis) I was expecting something supernatural, but actually the title is referring to brandy rather than beings (banshee’s bogeymen – I’m trying and failing to come up with a pithy alliterative quip!).
I’m not sure if I liked it or not – the main character is quite unsympathetic – a raving drunk who is ill and making himself worse with his hopeless addiction (I know that addiction is a disease and not a character flaw, but this man just seems to wallow in it – I want someone to help him to sober up) who is approached by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, no less, and employed to be an objective judge of a medium and magician that he (Doyle) is taken with.
Is it a comic farce? Is it a detective story? Is it a journey of discovery? Maybe all or none, I don’t know. I quite liked it (I think).
Sarah Wray Writer 