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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberDean Koontz|authortitle=Christoph MarziThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Jude can see the deadBenny is having a terrifically bad day. His life has changed immeasurably since He loses his job, he saw loses his fiancee, and his first ghost about six months agohouse gets trashed. He Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his fatherhouse is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who works away has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a lotgood person. Instead Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone , Benny, and Harper (a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the livingwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>1662500491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hold Your BreathAlly Wilkes|authortitle=Caroline GreenAll the White Spaces|rating=34|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Tara can locate lost objects In post- keysWWI England, phonesJonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and even peoplethe shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. But she knows that this strange ability can bring troubleGuilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missingdisaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, she wants a menacing presence waits to keep her visions prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to herself. The images she sees won't go awaymake it out of the Arctic winter alive, though - should she risk humiliationhe will have to face his demons once and for all, or worserisk making the barren, by trying to find her?icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>1789097835
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Weight Library of Souls|author=Bryony Pearcethe Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a curse bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from her motherthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Fated to help ghosts Ever since she dropped out of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herselfschool, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying been using it to support not to alienate her only friendherself, but her younger sister and persuade her father that sheaging grandmother. However, there's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murderedan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, shetargeting the city's left trying to solve children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the crime request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and also cope with realise that the realisation world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's becoming attracted ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to him.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniela SacerdotiHolly Rivers|title=TideDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her parentsvarious gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve' deaths at s irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the hands ghosts of the demons they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by recently deceased. Under the revelation towards the end guidance of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his liesGrandma Maeve, Sarah turns Demelza begins to Nicholasmaster her newfound skills. However, new there is a mysterious individual on the sceneprowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed It's up to Demelza and her faith in best friend Percy to get to the wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?bottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>1912626039
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harrington1473669065|title=PerceptionQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=45|genre=TeensHumour|summary=After solving a murder over the summerTilda returns to Brighton, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself to tidy away the centre remains of attention at school. Mostly ither mother's annoyinglife after her death. Whilst there, but harmless - popular girls wanting her she returns to use the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her unique gift mother for show and entertainment - but someone is sending banishing her increasingly creepy messagesas a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and Clare keeps getting gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the feeling tricky and uncertain relationship she's being followedhad with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kai Meyerwilliamabbey|title=Arcadia BurnsThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating=43.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=If you havenWhen William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880't read s South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in this seriesothers, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yelena BlackTudor Chalk|title=Dance of ShadowsThe Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Vanessa is just ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one of many fateful summer. By the time the new students at term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all trying to become the best dancerpoisoned, she has her own reasons for being theresinister memories of The Chalk Man. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the schoolHowever, and she's someone seems determined not to find out what happened let him and when the letters start to Margaret. Can she find out? And will arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the two boys taking an interest in hersummer of 1986, populated by fairs, charismatic Zeppelin ra-ra skirts and incredibly intense Justindeath. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help or hinder her searchbut wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah WhiteJester_Forever|title=DeceitForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester
|rating=4
|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Thinking Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the immortal Doctor defeatedoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Claire quite likes her, despite Naff (a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about stoner in the divorce records department) as they grapple with their long lives and struggling finding a clean surface to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, sit on the scenein their flat. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the past, an evil magician ancestor and an ancient prophecy, seem like old news. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Becca Fitzpatrick1785032461|title=Finale (Hush Hush) The Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with to a big problem: Noramother she hasn's vow t spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her dead fatherrefuge, Hank. Nora must lead the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each year. If she doesn'tPonden Hall, both where she ''can heal herself and'' try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her mother will diehusband. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her own boyfriend grieving son that his father is a fallen angel, so once again their relationship has to go undergrounddead. Nora agrees to a fake relationship with Dante, Where better than the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot house full of time together anywaylight and shadow, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson1471407764|title=The Haunted BookTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone Martha's world has changed. Blind in an empty house… one eye after falling from a rock group reuniting at their old studios and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… tree, she wakes with a nightmare for a round-the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium of ghost storiesdisturbing gift. But what of She can read people through their authorclothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, tasked and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to transfer reportage into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with the occulther grandmother, Mormor's cabin, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at a ghost himself – seeking answers no one that has not confined itself is prepared to just the pages give, and stumbles into world of the book he is currently writing, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>menace.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1492687863|title=DollyBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley
|rating=4.5
|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=An empty house in Flitting between the present day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the remote fenlands fascinating tale of Englandthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, with the Wilde House is being turned into a man returning museum due to it alone… the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's namesister, Lydia, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to be in live there. The perspective of the territory of [[book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in Black]]history, but worry not – this new short genre novel just as Charley is a very different beastbeginning to unravel it herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libba Bray1473203287|title=The DivinersSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill - fresh Imagine a world in from Ohio which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the city of her dreams after her demonstration discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a strange power caused race against Soviet spies and dealing with a scandal mole buried deep in society - this is what she's always dreamed the heart ofSummerland. But dreams can become nightmaresWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, and when Eviebecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, her uncle Will she must decide how far she is willing to go and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killer, how much she'll have is willing to use all of her wits, as well as her power, risk to stay aliveuncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tera Lynn Childs1472235878|title=Sweet VenomA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=3.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Grace is Witchcraft, the supernatural and the new girl will to survive at all costs collide in San Franciscoa story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen the old spirits want revenge and famine is an experienced monster-hunterkindling a resurgence of the old faith. Greer As fear rises, it is a socialiteincreasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connectionsacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and can this mismatched trio strangers are blowing in on a wind of teens defend the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>change.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela Hartshorne1472234782|title=Time's EchoThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola
|rating=5
|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to York to sort out be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the affairs straightjacket of her godmotherhome. Where every action, every thought, Lucyevery yearning is controlled by her father, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live only once in his life threw caution to the full wind and plans more travelling once Lucy's house is soldmarried way beneath him for love. She hasn’t Now a care or a tie in the worldwidower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, as long as she doesn't remember little Lucas back on that Christmas beach. As it turns outwhat is proper, that's not the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine though; it's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge bastion of the past doing what is just a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewexpected. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Jordan0751571229|title=VanishWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=3.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the arms thrill of romance, (the Pridecourse of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. When her mother took her away from them The ghost appears once a year, it was the last thing Jacinda wanted. But now she's backprincipal star of her very own show, she wants nothing more than to spread meet with the love of her wings life and fly awayre-enact her death. But it's not that easyA tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. SeverinLove, leader of the Pridejoy, care, has her under virtual house arrest. Tamrafriendship, Jacinda's twinjealousy, is going through some tumultuous changespossessiveness, and needs the support of the Pride. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in Jacinda's lifeselfishness, the one who brought her back to the Pridecold ambition, who she is beginning to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talentsall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet EvanovichAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Wicked BusinessThe Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Following When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]], pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sins. They're looking for the stone associated with lust and it becomes a bit particular part of a treasure hunt asthe Metropolitan Line, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the illfor example -mannered monkey) they have to work their way through a string call for PC Peter Grant of cluesthe Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. HoweverStray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they arenare all in a day's (or a night't the only ones looking; s) work for wherever goodies seek powerThe Folly team, even if the baddies lurk also. The baddies in question are again team only has two official members and the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir and his medieval minion Hatchetfiling system dates back 2 centuries. Wulf He may be Diesel's cousin spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but there's not Constable Grant is a lot of family love nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commencehope of a free meal. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Moore_Strange
|title=Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)
|author=Syd Moore
|rating=5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. If Rosie had her way she'd be selling the museum and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that a ghost was to blame...
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