I have enjoyed every book by Dick Wybrow that I have read. The characters are fun to read and the names are often hilarious which is good when the story is a bit dark. I love the Painter Mann character's take on what happens when one dies. His journey is always interesting and often unexpected.

I didn't notice at the time I requested it that it was part of a series. I won't be able to give a review as I didn't read the other books. Thank you for early access though!

I realized soon after I started reading that this was the second in a series, but decided to finish this and then go back to the first. I really love horror books that have genuinely scary moments but also have great personal relationships and a lot of humour, which describes this book extremely well. Painter Mann is a great character and the world-making of the In Between is stellar. The Ghost Wranglers reminded me of the Amazon series Truth Seekers, and the alternating viewpoints gave the whole thing a nice tension and variation in tone. The writing isn't show-offy, but pitched perfectly to serve the story. Hugely enjoyable.

I was excited to start reading The Night Vanishing the sequel to The Inbetween and I was not disappointed! The story is told from the point of view of Painter Mann, the best (and only) dead private investigator and also from the point of view of The Ghost Wranglers, a team of paranormal investigators. As with the first book this one contains a fantastic cast of weird and wonderful characters with equally weird and wonderful names, such as, Voodoo Cher, Jelly Roll and a man named Sue. Dick Wybrow has written amazing dialogue that frequently had me laughing out loud, soooo good!!! A great plot and edge of your seat action carried me through this book in record speed, I couldn't put it down. I cannot wait for the next in this series and I thoroughly recommend this book and this.author

i always enjoy books like this, I liked Painter as a main character and enjoyed going on this mystery with him. Overall this was really good and can't wait to see more of Painter.

DNF at 25%

I tried. I really tried. But I just couldn't do it.
I didn't have high hopes considering I didn't enjoy the first book but I thought I'd give it a go. I knew within ten minutes I wasn't going to finish this. It was worse than the first one. I tried to continue but just couldn't. So I'm sorry but this series is a no from me.

Thank you #netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this.

This was such a fun read. The plot and story was intiguing and the world building is well made. I also enjoyed Painter's integrity and sarcasm.

wasn't what i expected others may like this book it just wasn't my cup of tea id definitely try other books by this author !

Overall rating - 2 out of 5 stars. 

This is my first book of 2020 that I DNFR, I just didn't really understand the book? As in the plot wasn't clear to me, perhaps because I hadn't read the first one. 

I really struggled with the constant swapping between Painter Mann and the Ghost Wranglers, I felt every time we hit a good plot line with one of them the next chapter immediately swapped over, it felt disjointed. 

I read this on my Kindle and I got 40% of the way through without this book really gripping me. It just wasn't the book for me.

A very unusual hero, a private investigator who solves murder mysteries. He just happens to be dead too. I loved the first book in this series and was happy to see Dick Wybrow kept our hero as wonderfully quirky as he was in the first book. This story could easy pass for a stand alone but you should really treat yourself and read The InBetween too. Painter Mann decides to solve his own murder in this installment. The trouble he raises along the way is very entertaining. This a good story that was very easy to read. You will not be sorry you picked this one up.

I read the first book in this series, and I liked it. I was excited to read this second one just to see what would happen. I liked that Painter didn’t look down on other like he did in the first one, and I really enjoyed him so much more than the first time around. There were new characters in this one I just loved, and one is a villain. The plot of this one is very intriguing, as well, and I was so very surprised at the end. I admit at one point towards the conclusion I was thinking surely this is the end because it felt like it, because it felt like it was going on a little too long. Then the end just blew me away. I can’t wait to find out who Painter really is, how he’s going to deal with the new problem, and what the things Mini hinted about where. Recommend. I received a complimentary copy which I voluntarily reviewed.

The Night Vanishing is the second book in the Painter Mann series by Dick Wybrow. Due out 16th Jan 2020, it's 329 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, both books in the series are currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free.

I really enjoyed this weird addition to the Painter Mann (world's only living-challenged private investigator) series. The entire book is a fairly high octane trippy carnival ride from start to finish. The narrative is told in three separate threads, third person omniscient for the ghost hunters & living characters, first person for Painter Mann and the dead in-between people, and first person flashback for the part of the story which takes place in the 1750s (delineated in the chapter headings).
The action was surprisingly easy to keep track of since the writing styles are totally different and it's not mixed up in the same chapters, we get to see the action from multiple viewpoints. There's a certain amount of fluidity in the timelines since time has a different meaning in a lot of the book (it's explained well in the narrative). There is some light horror involved (voodoo, revenge, demonic soul-eating beasties, and the like). There's also a lot of fighting, destruction, and rooting for the underdog to come out on top. Painter himself, like gritty noir PIs in the classic mold, spends a lot of the book getting beat up, stomped on, trapped, folded, and mutilated.

I liked Painter's integrity and sarcasm (he's a smart*ss in the Harry Dresden mold). The world building and entire concept of the in-between is well done and weird (in a good way). The entire effect is somewhat dreamlike and unreal. My only quibble with the writing is that in several of the action scenes, it reads like a stream of consciousness free-for-all which comes across as chaotic and difficult to read. There were some parts which I had to re-read a few times to get the gist of what was happening. It was by no means ALL of the book, just a few of the fights.

Fun and interesting series, weird and cool. Four stars.

I'm happy I discovered this new to me series because it is a very good one.
It's a well written story, engrossing and entertaining.
I liked the fleshed out cast of characters, the world building and the well crafted plot.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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3.5 Hearts This is an interesting story. The concept is a different one. Painter Mann is dead but still investigating just like he did when he was alive.

He is working on a case but also dealing with a paranormal investigation team (Think Ghost Hunters).

I probably would have given this story 4 instead except I didn’t realize this was the second in the series and there was a bit I didn’t understand.

I would probably try the next in the series just to see if it’s worth it.

Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book

ghosts that end up in the inbetween place because they are murder victims..just waiting for someone to find out who had murdered them so they can go on to the next place...

painter mann is a ghost that is also in the inbetween place but he knows who murdered him but he hasnt moved on...hes busy with a job helping the others to move on...

though i was intrigued with this book i felt it didnt quite do it for me...there are funny elements to it...with painter being able to skate faster than a car or a train or a plane...and the ghostbusters who are a televised group going round with their streaming screens attached to themselves trying to help victims who find themselves haunted...
for me it didnt quite gel....no enough substance, all the elements were there but it didnt quite do it for me...sorry to say

Painter Mann is a dead private investigator currently residing in what he calls the “In Between” – a place where people who have been murdered go instead of going to their final destination, as you will. In fact he will tell you he is the best PI in the In Between, but because he’s the only one that also means he is the worst one too.

Thoughts:

When I first saw this book and its description I thought “Exactly how does this work? Are the bad guys dead too or alive? And if they are dead, who does he turn the bad guys over to? Who hires him and why?” I mean, the whole thing is kind of fascinating. Apparently, the folks in the In Between don’t know who have murdered them. I would say he mostly gets hired by those looking for the name of their killer. Having that name then allows them to move on to the next place.

In this second book of the series, he finds himself down in New Orleans, one of the most haunted cities in the U.S. Painter is looking for help in identifying his own killer when he runs across someone who tells him about a lot of ghosts disappearing all at once. They didn’t move on and they didn’t solve their murder, they just disappeared.

At the same time, a group of ghost hunters with a web/cable show are filming at a home in Scotland when one of them records a spirit looking for “Painter Mann.” Their ratings have been dwindling in recent years and when this occurs the number of social media hashtags and trending topics start to increase. With so much interest, how can they not start to look into who or what Painter Mann might be?

Similar to other noir genre books, this one definitely has a list of very unusual and colorful characters – Jelly Roll, Shark, Madame Mini just to name a few. The book itself flows through Painters encounters with various individuals with conversation styles that are more natural in form. Sometimes that made following the story or the conversation difficult because I would have to pay closer attention to what was being said or done at the time in order to understand where the story was leading us.

Overall, I found the book to be a creative take on the noir and detective genre books, which made for an interesting read since I wasn’t 100% sure where the story would take me.

Recommended for those looking for a different style of detective and private investigation stories or for fans of noir and ghostly encounters.

Rating: 3.5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Dee Dee Publishing for the advanced reader copy and opportunity to provide an honest review.

Painter is back with a new case, his own death.
In his attempt to discover who had murdered him, Painter travels to New Orleans, were he will discover agreat number of ghosts have disappeared. While trying to solve this case, he will come across some new interesting characters and make new friends.
The only problem I had with this book is that I finished it too quickly, and now I have to wait to see what fate has coming for Painter Mann, the best dead PI (and the worst, too).
Thanks NetGalley and Dick Wybrow for my ARC, I truely enjoyed reading this story!

This is the second in this excellent series. Painter Mann is a PI, but he is also dead. He has a role to play in the Inbetween, finding justice for those who were murdered. This story takes him to New Orleans, where he becomes involved in a plot to change history. Spirits have been disappearing, and Painter tries to find out what is happening, at great personal risk (yes, even for a ghost!).

I enjoy this series very much, but found this story didn't flow quite as smoothly as the first one. There are three threads, and occasionally one or another seems an intrusion to the main story. Eventually of course the links become clear. A great read. Hope there is more to come!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dee Dub Publishing for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I didn't like this book as much as the first one. It seemed to go nowhere for a while. I found Painter to be a bit annoying as he seemed to take forever figuring out what was going on and how to fix it. I did enjoy the book. Walther is a great character in the book. #TheNightVanishing #NetGalley