I was honestly a bit nervous to start reading Happy Medium. Not because of Sarah Adler's writing style as I thoroughly enjoyed her debut novel, Mrs. Nash's Ashes, last year. Nor was it about the ghost part of the story. I'm all about reading magical realism and paranormal. It was the fact that our heroine, Gretchen, was a con artist. I wasn't sure I could warm up to someone who was grifting wealthy elderly women posing as a medium, supposedly talking to their relatives who had passed on.