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just finished reading The Sense of Death by author Matty Dalrymple, The main character, Ann Kinnear has the sensory ability to feel the spirits or emotions experienced just before a person has died.
This ability happens when she is in the vicinity of where the person met their death or sometimes if she touches something belonging to the person.
Her gift was made public as a teenager when she and her brother Mike helped in the search of a missing friend.
Ann tries to avoid the public secluded in her cabin within the Adirondacks , but her brother manages their company, Ann uses her sensory perception at the request of clients who are purchasing homes and want to determine if a spirit is present before they make a purchase, especially in older homes with history.

This story is based on trying to prove socialite Elizabeth Firth was murdered by her husband, where there is no evidence of a crime in the home.
The plot is is very layered and written well to hold the readers interest,
I really Like Ann and grieved for Beau, I will be looking to read more in this series! Very Clever! Ann Kinnear is a quiet, private person who “senses” spirits.
She and her brother Mike have a spirit consulting business, but Ann prefers to stay out of the limelight, When Ann is asked to sense spirits for a client in a home that shes considering purchasing, Ann immediately senses that a terrible event has occurred within the home.
Ann is then unwillingly drawn into a murder mystery that puts her own life in danger,

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It has so many great elements going for it, Yes, readers are aware of who the murderer is at the start, but that in no way ruins the book.
In fact, I found The Sense of Death to be one of the most suspenseful books Ive ever read, I never knew quite what would happen next,

Matty Dalyrmples writing is wonderfully expressive, Her characters are well developed and relatable, She does a great job of making the murderer a highly unlikable character, I enjoyed the authors writing, plot and characters so much that I was able to breeze through the book in a day.
I was also very interested in seeing how it would end, The ending was tidy and satisfying!

I highly recommend The Sense of Death to anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery, with a unique paranormal slant added in for plenty of additional interest.


ofStars, Susan Barton, sitelink com Absolutely fantastic page turner!

This is my first book by Matty Dalrymple but won't be my last.
As a matter of fact I already bought the next book in this series and am getting ready to start it after I post this.
The characters are so real and the story just soaks you into the pages as of you are seeing it all yourself.
The suspence makes you keep reading, You just have to see for yourself,
I love reading books in a certain order: romance, murder/suspense/, romance, etc, This book had a lot of elements that are my favorite to read about: supernatural ability, strong female character, and murder.
The main character Ann Kinnear is unable to communicate with ghosts, but she can sense them, She is really talented at sensing when the ghosts died under unnatural causes,

This book is suspenseful, and has a female character you grow to love, I loved the detective, and her brother, If you are looking for a suspenseful book with a great plot, This is it! Every once in awhile you start a book by a "new to you" author, and you immediately know you like her/his writing it happened to me when I was reading The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple.
From the first few pages, I was fullyengaged the characters were believable, resonated with me and I really liked the author's writing style.

The Sense of Death is the first book in the Ann Kinnear Suspense Series, From the time she was a little girl, Ann knew she was different from other children, Growing up, she could sense the spirit of a little girl in her home, Ann called her Susan, Susan would manifest herself with a green light/energy that only Ann could detect, Her parents discouraged her, thinking perhaps she had an overactive imagination, Her brother Mike was the only person believed Ann had a gift,
When a neighbor girl went missing, Mike called on Ann to help with the search,
The girl had fallen into a side cave while hiking a location it would have taken searchers ages to find.
Ann was aware of a dark energy and discovered the dead body of the girl the search had taken too long.
Ann became an overnight sensation and was recognized by many as a celebrity teenage psychic,
Eventually Ann and Mike formed a consulting business, Mike was the business manager and Ann's agent, They often checked homes for potential buyers or sellers to ascertain if there were any spirits or assisted in finding missing or lost people.
Ann shared her gift reticently as she didn't want to be seen as a phony or attention seeker,
In The Sense of Death, Ann is partnered with Philadelphia detective Jo Booth to see if she can determine if the spirit of a missing wealthy socialite, presumed by many to be dead, was present in the family's home.
Can Ann help Will she put herself or Mike in harm's way, What happened to Elizabeth Firth I hope I have piqued your interest as the answers can only be found in this exciting and intriguing book.
A definitestar read. I liked it a lot until the last few chapters where the character, Mikes personality seems to change, rather drastically.
Mike is Anns sister, bodyguard, protector, and gay, It sounded fine to me, But the later chapters explicit unnecessary affection between Mike and his partner Scott, and Mike started to call Anne like “Sweetie”and started to take less considerate, irresponsible actions.

Those sudden changes to make characters to all like stereotyped images of “gay”annoyed me, Fascinating

Very well done, Kept my attention. Intelligent well written. Would love to see the next story, There's one issue I had with this book,

Onlyword of criticism can't stand the f word, This is not necessary to convey the emotions amp thoughts of the characters, In my opinion, it cheapens the context amp limits your audience,
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sitelinkThe Sense of Death is a first novel, and while it's an enjoyable cozy mystery it shows.
There are several things about the styling of the story that I didn't care for, but in the end Ann's character was one with which I could sympathize even if I don't sense spirits.
The place descriptions are good, The premise is intriguing. I liked Ann and her relationship with her brother, I personally am intrigued by the idea of spirits or ghosts and the possibility of communicating with them, and I enjoyed how the author used the idea in the book.


I was really disappointed that the whodunit of the story is revealed in the first couple of chapters.
Takes the mystery right out of it, takes the suspense away, and almost made me DNF it, . . but then there were more Ann chapters and I was more interested, A lot of the plot honestly seems very farfetched, especially in the end, I was constantly reading with one eyebrow raised in skepticism, The plot is also a very common one in murder mysteries, but I guess there are only so many, While the deterioration of the culprit is believable, I didn't feel the motivation was convincing, Also, there are several chapters AFTER the climatic event, most of which were unnecessary,

The author struggles with POV, Even though it's written inrd person throughout, it's mostly limitedrd person with random bits of popping into another minor or even walkon character's head.
That part was very jolting and annoying,

The old telling vs, showing that interferes with a lot of writing is EXTREMELY present, There are entire chapters of almost nothing but backstory, paragraphs going on and on and Ann's childhood or past experiences.
Don't just TELL us how she felt, SHOW us! At a few points showing was successfully accomplished, but then it would lapse right back into a monologue of infodumping and it was just a struggle to read.


All that said, I still enjoyed the book, but I'm undecided about whether or not I will read the second one.
I was going to rate at,/until the climatic chapter, and a certain event that actually brought tears to my eyes,

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I actually accidentally requested this from NetGalley and wonder of wonders, was approved.
Why accidentally Because I never request books that have already been published, Oops. So we'll give it a whirl anyway, . . Spirit Sensor

I love a good suspense thriller, . . couldn't put it down till the end, Compelling, clean, good detective, great brothersister relationship, . mystery solved. I want to read the next one now!
star book :

But a

star narration :

A good audiobook can breathe life into a book and create a kind of film for the ears.
This is what it should do, A good narration should enable the listener 'to see' the story in a new light, deepen reader interest and ignite the reader's emotions.


'Sense of Death' is a good book but the narration was flat and monotone, I like audio books that inject energy and passion into the story but I didn't find that here and I think it is a missed opportunity.


First the story:

This is what I would describe as an eerie thriller, It is also a murder mystery but we know who did the murder right from the beginning because we are there when he does it.
What we don't know is how his crime will be discovered, We do know it will involve Anne Kinnear and her ability to sense the dead, I don't normally like this kind of mystery, I don't like to know who did it from the beginning but it was interesting so I stuck with it.


It is a series of coincidences that open the way for Anne Kinnear to get involved in helping the police to solve the death of Elizabeth Firth.
She has been murdered in a terrible act of violence and her husband took great pains to hide her body and construct a cover story.
This isn't enough and the body is found and the police begin to hunt for the killer,
Biden the killer is a man who feels unappreciated, It was a simple argument that led to the violence that killed his wife and he was thinking he would move on with his life and sell his house but Elizabeth's presence is still there and she needs justice.


I don't normally read this kind of thiller because I don't like knowing who did it at the beginning but this was ok because of the scary factor.
This was 'Silence of the Lambs' scary, It was scary because the reader can see into the mind of a violent killer but at the same

time we know he didn't mean to kill his wife.
In some sense the reader can feel sorry for him but then we are confronted by the horror of his violence and we also need to see that justice is done.


Ann Kinnear uses her gift to earn a living, We are told how she has this ability to sense the dead from a very early age and how her brother protects her and acts as her business partner.
Ann begins to sense Elizabeth when she is out checking houses on behalf of a couple who want to buy a house.
But when she senses Elizabeth she flees the house even before entering, Eventually she is asked to help and unwittingly places herself in the path of a killer, I did think the end of this story was just too convenient and the instead of wrapping up the story continued, kind of meandering.


All in all This is a good story but the narration was a missed opportunity,

The narration:

Monotone, rather flat and disappointing, Not every narration will involve drama and different voices but this narratiom was just so boring, I eventually got used to this but I nearly gave up at the very beginning, It is the quality of the story that kept me going not the narration, I listened tohours of what felt like droning and it robbed the story of drama,

All in all this was a good story but I wish the audiobook had been better,

"This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBlast dot com.
" 'A Sense of Death,' was unlike any other psychic murder mystery I've ever read, because the psychic in the story isn't really a psychic and the murder mystery isn't really a mystery.


Normally, I'm not big on murder mysteries where the reader finds out who the killer is early in the book, but I felt like it worked in this one.
At the very least, I didn't feel ripped off by it and it made sense that the characters in the book didn't have the ability to just drag the guy in and arrest him.


I liked Ann a lot as a character, She was smart and strong without being unrealistically so, I thought it was cool how her psychic abilities only extended to vague senses of spirits which, while being more than the average person can do, still left her frustrated that she couldn't help her clients or the spirits more.


I also loved the other characters, like Mike and Walt, who were both well written and fleshed out without taking over the entire book.


I think the only problems I had with it were that I felt like it was a little longthere were def places where situations that the reader had been privy to on the page were explained again to new parties like,more times.
Which can feel a bit unnecessary and there was also some kind of weird formatting stuff,
For instance, every time Ann had a vision, the text suddenly went into italics, I still found myself capable of following what was happening, but I guess I think of italics as being for the thoughts of characters, or possibly flashbacks.
This was a pretty small thing, though, overall, It only happened a handful of times,

I definitely intend to read the second book in this series because I want to know what happens to these characters next!

I should also mention, I won this book in a GR giveaway, but it was already on my TBR list and it wasn't in exchange for anything.

I didn't have high expectations for this book

I thought it would be decent, and maybe even interesting, but it turned out I could barely put it down.
If I could have held my eyelids open with toothpicks I might have tried it, I enjoyed the characters, and the relationship between Ann and Mike, I hope to see more of Joe in the next book, and to meet Garrick again, .