Relight My Fire, C. K. McDonnell
Relight My Fire, C. K. McDonnell
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Relight My Fire
(The Stranger Times 4)

Author: C. K. McDonnell

Series: Stranger Times

Narrator: Brendan McDonald

Unabridged: 14 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2024

Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!

Some comebacks can be murder . . .

Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in. This isn't just the hunt for another story though. Dark powers think Stella might have been involved and the only way she and the team can prove her innocence is to find out what the hell is really going on. What have dodgy gear, disturbed graves and a decommissioned rock star got to do with all this?

Vincent Banecroft has problems of his own in the form of a tall, dark but-definitely-not-handsome man dressed like a one-man funeral who has been sent to make the paper's editor atone for his sins. Once he finds out exactly what that entails, Banecroft is not keen. Being banished to a Hellscape for all eternity looks like being no fun at all, not least because he has that pale Irish skin that burns really easily . . .

All that plus territorial ghouls, homicidal felines, eternal (and seemingly unstoppable) gnomes and a celebrity 'Who's Who' that'd put a royal wedding to shame, and you're looking at a wild few days for The Stranger Times.

Relight My Fire is the fourth book in the acclaimed and brilliantly funny Stranger Times series.

©2024 C. K. McDonnell (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on November 12, 2023

5 stars ++ Definitely the best yet. I'll apologise for waxing lyrical from this point on. Okay, maybe not lyrical but overly enthusiastic at least. The employees of The Stranger Times are thankfully back in the building and it's probably for the best that they stay there because it's getting even mor......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on August 13, 2023

Oh wow, so happy to have read this early! This is my favourite Stranger Times novel so far, it was so so good! It has everything I could have asked for and more. The plot is great and really builds on some crucial elements from the other parts of the book, and I really feel this has brought everythi......more

Goodreads review by Lezlie The Nerdy Narrative on February 01, 2024

The employees of The Stranger Times are back with a new mystery to solve - and the stakes have never been higher.(If you've read the book, then you can appreciate the pun there!) I was up first thing on release morning, downloading my Audible preorder of this one so I could start binging it straight......more

Goodreads review by Maria on April 06, 2025

The gang is back as are as funny as ever. This story for some reason was not as interesting as other installments probably because it has less Dr. Carter in it who has become an essential character in this series. The story kept me laughing constantly. I like the author’s social commentary. When talk......more

Goodreads review by Connie on November 22, 2023

Yay! The gang is back. As a massive fan of this series, I couldn't wait to get stuck in. The series continues with a body face-planting the street from a great height right in front of Stella. The powers that be believe Stella had something to do with the young mans demise so the team investigate to......more

Quotes

McDonnell's world is transgressively hilarious, grimly banal and beguilingly warm. Of course there's a story that the intrepid journalists of The Stranger Times have to tease out: grave-robbing, cryogenics, a very angry witch, and a washed-up indie legend looking for a lost album, but the real joy lies in the pitfalls and pratfalls of getting there. DAILY MAIL

An absolute riot of a read. DAILY EXPRESS

Laugh-out-loud funny and full of colourful characters. DAILY MIRROR

It’s no secret that here at SciFiTowers we’re massive fans of the Stranger Times series by C. K. McDonnell. Following the success of Love Will Tear Us Apart (which made February 2023’s list of best books), he’s back with book number four and we return to Manchester and the world of The Stranger Times newspaper who cover anything weird and wonderful. SciFiNOW

I loved the dry and embedded humour of this book, it's the stuff of life . . . the whole thing is great fun. SFCROSWNEST

You could be forgiven for wondering if author C.K. McDonnell could continue the high standards set in the previous three novels of The Stranger Times series, but fear not . . . Relight My Fire is perhaps the best since the original. STARBURST

Wit, wonder and weirdness . . . McDonnell is an astute and enigmatic storyteller . . . eliciting visceral reactions from this reader who was at times stunned and falling off the chair laughing. ENTERTAINMENT FOCUS

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