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The Flip Side by Ted Richardson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Flipside is a cosy mystery with a paranormal secondary theme.
Promising musician Theo is under psychiatric assessment, but he’s just been released into his mother’s care and is starting a job at a care facility. Theo has had a troubled life, never quite feeling himself, with his childhood imaginary friends and his searches for a girl called Daisy.
When Theo plays one of his own songs at the care home, it upsets Lucy; she says that the song was written for her many years ago by Wyatt, a man who disappeared without a trace. As Theo befriends some of the residents he becomes involved in Lucy’s search for her missing love.
This was a gentle read and I enjoyed the paranormal undertones and the small town setting. The characters were likeable and the story had a couple of good twists to keep me entertained.
Book Description:
Theo has everything a promising musician could want. He’s the front man for the hottest band in New York City, with mad guitar skills and a pending record deal. The only Theo is losing his mind.
After his on-stage breakdown and six-week stay at a psychiatric hospital, Theo is ordered to move back home with his mother. As part of his outpatient treatment program, he is assigned a job as an orderly at a local senior home. There he meets Lucy, a terminally ill resident whose life is somehow mysteriously linked to his. One day Lucy overhears Theo practicing an original song in the music room. But what she hears isn’t possible. Lucy’s first boyfriend wrote the same song the night before he was murdered—fifty years earlier. Things only get stranger from there.
Desperate to make sense of the unexplainable things happening to him and reclaim his music career, Theo attempts to solve the cold case murder. In doing so, he hopes to find answers to questions he’s had his whole life. But it could cost him more than just his sanity in the process.
