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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Help for the HauntedFrontpage|author=John Searles|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Rose and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping the haunted, performing exorcisms and running seminars across America on the subject of the paranormal. When they are murdered in a church, their daughters, Rose and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDean Koontz|title=Firelight|author=Kristen CallihanThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5
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|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer Benny is having a man feared throughout Londonterrifically bad day. Dark He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and broodinghis house gets trashed. Oh, he hides behind and someone has delivered a maskreally weird, scared of revealing disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the disfigurement thing that has had him searching across trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the world 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 house is a cure. Seeking companionshipnew friend, he weds Miranda Ellisa bad weather friend called Spike, a young woman who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a family reduced to povertygood person. As Miranda and Benjamin come Spike is going to know take care of Benny, and love each otherwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, secrets and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are revealed that could destroy not just the relationship, but both of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>1662500491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=VisionsAlly Wilkes|authortitle=Kelley ArmstrongAll the White Spaces|rating=54|genre=ParanormalHorror|summary=Olivia JonesIn post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, daughter 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 serial killers, has successfully proved her his parents innocent of one murder. With that seed of doubt plantedHowever, sheJonathan isn's out to prove them innocent t the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the restwar hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. She knows Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the people of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than party and, when disaster strikes and they are sayingforced to overwinter on land, but trying a menacing presence waits to get them prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to talk about anything - from her parents make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to Olivia's strange ability to read omens - is like trying to get get blood from a stoneface his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>1789097835
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Better Homes and HauntingsT L Huchu|authortitle=Molly HarperThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private islandRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, it's using Zimbabwean magic (and a chance for her bit of Scottish pragmatism) to escape take messages from the difficulties dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her past younger sister and start rebuilding her failing landscaping businessaging grandmother. If she can do a good job hereHowever, it will open all sorts there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of doors to Edinburgh, targeting the upper class marketscity's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and on a private island, surely her horrible ex canmore dangerous than she ever could't ve imagined. Will she find ways the missing children and bring an end to sabotage this evil, or will it claim her, righttoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead But Not ForgottenHolly Rivers|authortitle=Charlaine Harris Demelza and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)the Spectre Detectors|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to Sookie Stackhouseher Grandma Maeve's worldirritation. However, exploring the lives and misadventures of some she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the more minor characters in ability to summon the series. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba and many ghosts of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and recently deceased. Under the wider universe guidance of Sookie's storyher Grandma Maeve, written by authors such as Seanan McGuireDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, Rachel Cainethere is a mysterious individual on the prowl, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and many moreher best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>1912626039
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1473669065|title=Shadow GirlQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHumour|summary=One of Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the disadvantages remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather Paradise hotel, a lot haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and usually it's not down to let go of thoughts that torment themelsewhere. But because of this it's easy to see making friends Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as being a wasted effort and child, from this was certainly Clare's opinionplace of wonder. By With the age help of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and after being there for two months uncertain relationship she hated it. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw with her being evicted from the school bus sometimes cruel and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddydistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Goddesswilliamabbey|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genretitle=Teens|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult The Pursuit of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=LibriomancerWilliam Abbey|author=Jim C HinesClaire North|rating=43.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionshim, inner journeys and despairas the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be funNever stopping, entertaining always growing – it crosses oceans and laser pistolsmountains in pursuit of William. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that follows Isaac Vainiohe hears in others, a Libriomancer who has he also learns that the power dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when kill the one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be loves the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>most…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=Half BadThe Chalk Man|author=Sally GreenC J Tudor|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHorror|summary=Before I start, I'll declare 'The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an uninteresteerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. I'm not really into By the time the paranormal genrenew term begins, friendships will be fractured, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romancesa girl will be dead. I like fantasy and I've nothing against But who is the supernatural. It's just 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 the predictability poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. Soletters start to arrive, you realisethe past follows, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the perspective summer of an ''un''1986, populated by fairs, ra-fanra skirts and death. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan MirandaJester_Forever|title=VengeanceForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester
|rating=4
|genre=TeensHorror|summary=''Vengeance'' Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]]Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn clean surface to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others sit on in some kind of freakish revengetheir flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=The Woman in Black: Angel of DeathGirl at the Window|author=Martyn WaitesRowan Coleman|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=It's here at last – the novel of the script of Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the sequel centuries and to the film of the book – that was always better as a stage-playmother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. I'll maintain as long as you like that the play is the best way Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]], purely for terms with the added extra traumatic loss of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leaveher husband. Making sequels She needs to the film, what build bridges with its departures from her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the sourcehouse full of light and shadow, certainly don't marry up with that – instead of the ghost going away into the audience it's instead as if the new characters are compelled into nurtured her throughout her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability of all the best ghost stories are on these pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>childhood?
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 {{newreview|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories|author=Cecily Gayford (editor)|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesFrontpage|summaryisbn=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1471407764|title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=AntigoddessTwisted Tree|author=Kendare BlakeRachel Burge|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a lot less godlike than they used to bedisturbing gift. In factShe can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, they are dyingrevealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside She flees to her and Hermesgrandmother, Mormor's body cabin, seeking answers no one is eating itself. Literally. They are on a road trip prepared to find out exactly what it is killing the gods give, and to save themselves if they can. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costsstumbles into world of menace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Memory: She's Dying to RememberBellewether |author=Christoph MarziSusanna Kearsley
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Jude can see Flitting between the deadpresent day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost about six months ago. Hewho haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's lost interest at school sister, Lydia, and become even further distanced from his fathera French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who works away a lotwas sent to live there. Instead, he spends most The perspective of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and a circle of dead people headed by exJean-rock star GaskellPhilippe. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with The latter two tell the livingtruth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1473203287|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSummerland |author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=TideHannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After her parents' deaths at the hands discovery of the demons they fought againstafterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the end heart of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean HannaySummerland. Unable to trust Sean following his liesWhen Rachel White, Sarah turns to Nicholasan ambitious SIS agent, new on becomes suspicious about the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she find out is willing to risk to uncover the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harrington1472235878|title=PerceptionA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=After solving Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a murder over story that never shies away from the summerdarker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of attention at schoolthe old faith. Mostly As fear rises, it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is sending her increasingly creepy messagestainted, its healing waters run red with blood and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followedstrangers are blowing in on a wind of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Burns|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this series, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yelena Black|title=Dance of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're all trying to become the best dancer, she has her own reasons for being there. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the school, and she's determined to find out what happened to Margaret. Can she find out? And will the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah White1472234782|title=Deceit|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thinking the immortal Doctor defeated, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, and Claire quite likes her, despite a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, on the scene. 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>}} {{newreviewThe Story Keeper|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Finale (Hush Hush) Anna Mazzola|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead escapes from the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yearstraightjacket of her home. If she doesn'tWhere every action, every thought, both she ''and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader every yearning is controlled by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend is a fallen angelfather, so who only once again their relationship has in his life threw caution to go undergroundthe wind and married way beneath him for love. Nora agrees Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to a fake relationship with Danteupholding what is right, what is proper, the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam bastion of doing what is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warexpected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson0751571229|title=When The Haunted BookCurtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in an empty house… a rock group reuniting at their old studios from the first page and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… a nightmare for takes you on a round-roller coaster ride towards the-world solo yachtsman when he gains last. Fletcher weaves together a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium dash of ghost stories. But what ''Whodunit'' the thrill of their authorromance, tasked to transfer reportage into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with (the occultcourse of which never runs smoothly, in any shape or form? ) and an unpredictable ghost. How long will it be before he finds himself staring at The ghost appears once a ghost himself – one that has not confined itself to just year, the pages principal star of the book he is currently writingher very own show, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Dolly|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=An empty house in to meet with the remote fenlands love of England, her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with a man returning to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something the roots buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s name, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on deep within the cover… We do seem to be in the territory whole array of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beastall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libba BrayAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The DivinersFurthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill When local police find something weird - fresh in from Ohio to spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the city of her dreams after her demonstration Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a strange power caused day's (or a scandal in society - this is what shenight's always dreamed of) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and the filing system dates back 2 centuries. But dreams can become nightmaresHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and when Evie, her uncle Will recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and their friends find themselves trying he is inclined to stop trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the hope of a serial killer, she'll have to use all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alivefree meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tera Lynn ChildsMoore_Strange|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connection, and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Pamela Hartshorne|title=Time's EchoSyd Moore
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|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her godmotherlast escapade with curator Sam Stone, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life and figuring out what on earth to do with the full and plans more travelling once LucyEssex Witch Museum she's house is soldrecently inherited. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as If Rosie had her way she doesn't remember little Lucas d be selling the museum and heading back on that Christmas beachto 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. As it turns outSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, that's not scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the only thing she needs to avoidwalls. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep Before Rosie and vivid daydreams Sam can start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though; it, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just daughter swears that a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewghost was to blame... Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Sophie Jordan|title=Vanish|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into the arms of the Pride. When her mother took her away from them, it was the last thing Jacinda wanted. But now she's back, she wants nothing more than Move on to spread her wings and fly away. But it's not that easy. Severin, leader of the Pride, has her under virtual house arrest. Tamra, Jacinda's twin, is going through some tumultuous changes, and needs the support of the Pride. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in Jacinda's life, the one who brought her back to the Pride, who she is beginning to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked AppetiteNewest Pets Reviews]], 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 of a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the ill-mannered monkey) they have to work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, the baddies lurk also. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>}}

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