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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview<!-- Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the 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 poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. 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? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= David Jester|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Aaronovitch|title=The Furthest Station|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the 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 day’s (or a night’s) work for The Folly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Syd Moore|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|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 on the walls 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Parkin|title= The Winter's Child|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary=''A modern Gothic tale of twisted love, secrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, but that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nalini Singh|title= Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a world of humans, changelings and Psy. The world the books have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. The peace is painful and not universally loved. Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217571</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charles E McGarry|title= The Ghost of Helen Addison|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Leo Moran is a gourmand, sleuth and seer of visions. Beset by ghoulish dreams and apparitions of a terrible crime he leaves the safety of his extravagantly furnished Glasgow apartment and sets out to Lock Dhonn to aid the police in their investigation of the murder of the eponymous Helen Addison. Along the way he is visited by the phantom form of Helen and is besieged by evil forces before tumbling into a rabbit hole of deceit, mystery and the dark forces of the occult. In a race to solve the case and stop the wrong man being accused of such a ghastly crime, Leo must draw on all his skills and convince the police that the killer is still at large and waiting to strike again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vivian Shaw|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in the least.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta Helsing, a highly talented, well respected physician with her own specialised medical practice, known and adored throughout London for her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but relations have improved since then and she now spends her days carrying on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what is uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't heal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508870</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G S DenningDean Koontz|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the BaskervillesBad Weather Friend

|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Benny is having a lot of Sherlock Holmes storiesterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, but not that many novelsand his house gets trashed. Holmes adventures were mostly kept Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to a short story length his home, and it's possible that allowed a quick build up and reveal whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that would fit into an episodic tellinghas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. The best known novel He is ''The Hound of a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Baskervilles'' and anyone delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who parodies the great detective would eventually need has been sent to cover the tale of the cursed Baskerville familyhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They donSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes and although s enemies, if he may have died at the end of the last book, this wonBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't stop him investigating one of his greatest casess wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreAlly Wilkes|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)All the White Spaces|rating= 54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magicIn post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. NoFor Jonathan, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the ramshackle Essex Witch Museumopportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, her first thought is to take without the money disapproval and runconstraints of his parents. StillHowever, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the museum exerts war hangs like a curious pull funeral shroud over Rosiethe expedition. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bonesGuilt, those of mistrust and grief stalk the notorious Ursula Cadenceparty and, a witch long since put when disaster strikes and they are forced to death. And there's curator Sam Stoneoverwinter on land, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up menacing presence waits to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a whileprey on their darkness. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie If Jonathan is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets make it out of the past come with their own realArctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them allor risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Federico AxatT L Huchu|title= Kill The Library of the Next OneDead|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersTeens|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writerRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced Scottish pragmatism) to shoot or blunder his way through a by-take messages from the-numbers thrillerdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. The spectre Ever since she dropped out of Lee Childschool, she's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed been using it to his temple. He has the perfect lifesupport not only herself, including a beautiful wife but her younger sister and two adoring childrenher aging grandmother. However, but has discovered that he is also in possession there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. HoweverEdinburgh, right before he decides to take targeting the shot and end his lifecity's children. Soon, there Ropa is pulled into the search for a knock on missing boy at the request of his doordead mother. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents She will end up discovering an all-knowing organisation occult library and realise that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the law. Tedmissing children and bring an end to this evil, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves or will it.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kelley ArmstrongHolly Rivers|title= Otherworld ChillsDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 45|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary= I came Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to Armstrongwork on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development and it seems irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that sheare not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's now wrapping it up to move on Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines bottom of her best loved charactersthis. I'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>1912626039

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1473669065|title= BetrayalsQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating= 45|genre= ParanormalHumour|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her parents were not her biological parents – that mother's life after her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killersdeath. But while Whilst there, she's coming returns to an understanding about 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 mother for banishing her fae heritageas a child, from this place of wonder. With the strange visions that are a part help of thatQueenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, she's not yet ready Tilda begins to make pick apart the choice that destiny would have tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her makesometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= V H Lesliewilliamabbey|title= Bodies The Pursuit of WaterWilliam Abbey|author=Claire North|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalFantasy|summary= Bodies When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the perspectives of Kirstengrieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, a modern day woman on he slowly learns the mend from a broken heart, and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guest' weight of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater Housecurse upon him, attempting to heal herself with as the proximity shadow of the waterdead boy begins to follow him across the world. Centuries agoNever stopping, Evelyn was forced by her father always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to visit resist speaking the truths that same house he hears in order to restore her old vigourothers, but the water cannot drown out the ghost he also learns that haunts her. In fact, the water itself dark shadow is a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their lives, Kirsten deadly – and Evelyn search seeks to unveil kill the mysteries of one he loves the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>most…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine FeehanTudor Chalk|title= Shadow RiderThe Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating= 45|genre=ParanormalHorror|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing carsfriends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legalconjured during one fateful summer. Splashed across By the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America time the 4 brothers new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to girl will be reckoned withdead. But who is the killer; is it The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to travelhome? Thirty years later, unseenEd has tried to forget about that summer, through about all the shadows; a power which they use poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to serve justice let him and when the legal system failsletters start to arrive, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldpast follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</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?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G S DenningJester_Forever|title=Warlock HolmesForever After: A Study in Brimstonea dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalHorror|summary=A wise fictional character once said that when you have excluded Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the impossibleoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. With this a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in mind – what is Sherlock Holmes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on a different plain, or perhaps the more obvious option is that he was records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a Warlock? Surely his ability clean surface to see what others cannot is more likely to be through magic, rather than intellect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>sit on in their flat.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1785032461|title=Book of LiesThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=3.5

|summary= As teenage fiction Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identityt spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, relationship troublesPonden Hall, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the supernaturaltraumatic loss of her husband. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper She needs to build bridges with her mother and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birthconvince her grieving son that his father is dead. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal Where better than the complexities house full of their shared family, their terrifying dreams light and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraftshadow, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1471407764|title=The Visitors BookTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=3.5

|summary= Sophie HannahMartha's The Visitors Book is world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a short anthology of modern stories tree, she wakes with a supernatural twistdisturbing gift. There is not a hammy gothic turret in sight as her characters experience She can read people through their mundaneclothes, day-to-daysecrets tumble from the weave, 21st century business -- a childrenrevealing insights she doesn's birthday partyt really want, a visit and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to a boyfriendher grandmother, neck painMormor's cabin, the school run. Now, ghost stories based on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be very unsettling indeed, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at the bus stop, or giving them goosebumps for seeking answers no apparent reason. So I was curious one is prepared to see what Sophie Hannah, a writer I much admiregive, would make and stumbles into world of this particular materialmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelley Armstrong1492687863|title=DeceptionsBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley

|summary=Liv is starting to understand Flitting between the Fae world that has existed in secretpresent day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and her place within itall its inhabitants. But In the more she understandspresent tense aspects, the less she likes it. Visions of Wilde House is being turned into a girl torn between two men continue museum due to plague her – visions that are starting to feel alarmingly similar to her real life relationships with Gabriel and Rickythe legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Brockway|title= The Unnoticeables|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Carey It is a punk living in New York City, 1977. Sick told from the perspective of watching his friends be abducted and killedCharley, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do museum curator, who is drink beer intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and kick ass. In the present day, Kaitlyn is their story; a tale that ends in Hollywood. A stuntwoman, she has a missing best friendtragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, has just escaped an attempt on her lifeLydia, and an angel is waiting outside her doora French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The survival perspective of the human race lies in the hands of Carey book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and KaitlynJean-Philippe. We areThe latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, all of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=The Accident SeasonSummerland |author=Moira Fowley-DoyleHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=For Imagine a month world in every yearwhich death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of the afterlife, the month leading up to HalloweenBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Cara's family are susceptible to accidentsthe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. There are cuts In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and scrapes and bruisesdealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimesWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the accidents are even fataltruth... ... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Miranda1472235878|title=Soulprint|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled the tracking A Gathering of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGhosts|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Otherworld NightsKaren Maitland|rating=45

|summary=Kelley Armstrong revisits her hugely popular 'Otherworld' series in this collection of short storiesWitchcraft, featuring many of the prominent characters from the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The Piper|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter supernatural and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two will to The Grange survive at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing all costs collide in the garden and strange music a story that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill never shies away from the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safedarker side of human nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=An English Ghost Story|author=Kim Newman|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Naremoresland is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a family with a troubled past, leave London in search resurgence of peace in the quiet Somerset countrysideold faith. Finding the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to symbolise a turning point and the end of all their problemsignore that something rotten has taken root. The Hollow seems possessed of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as sacred well as hopes and dreams. Unfortunatelyis tainted, the positive power of the Hollow is suddenly challenged its healing waters run red with blood and the family strangers are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Green Door|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. She's not the type to be taken blowing in by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something else. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at on a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out wind of the tentchange. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472234782|title=Printer's Devil CourtThe Story Keeper|author=Susan HillAnna Mazzola

|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer is Audrey, a man feared throughout London. Dark complex mix of flights of fancy and broodingseriousness, wanting, he hides behind a maskneeding, scared to be more than what everyone expects of revealing her, escapes from the disfigurement that has had him searching across the world for a curestraightjacket of her home. Seeking companionshipWhere every action, he weds Miranda Ellisevery thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, a young woman from a family reduced who only once in his life threw caution to povertythe wind and married way beneath him for love. As Miranda Now a widower and Benjamin come remarried, he has rigorously returned to know and love each otherupholding what is right, what is proper, secrets are revealed that could destroy not just the relationship, but both bastion of themdoing what is expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0751571229|title=VisionsWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Kelley ArmstrongCarrie Hope Fletcher

|summary=Olivia JonesA thoroughly, daughter 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 thrill of serial killersromance, has successfully proved her parents innocent (the course of one murderwhich never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. With that seed The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of doubt plantedher very own show, she's out to prove them innocent meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the rest. She knows roots buried deep within the people whole array of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are sayinghuman nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but trying to get them to talk about anything - from her parents to Olivia's strange ability to read omens - is like trying to get get blood from a stoneall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Aaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Better Homes and HauntingsThe Furthest Station|author=Molly HarperBen Aaronovitch

|summary=When Nina Linden arrives local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on Deacon Whitney's private islanda particular part of the Metropolitan Line, it's a chance for her to escape example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the difficulties of her past and start rebuilding her failing landscaping businessSpecial Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. If she can do a good job hereStray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, it will open they are all sorts of doors to the upper class markets, and on in a private island, surely her horrible ex canday't find ways to sabotage her, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead But Not Forgotten|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner s (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouseor a night's world) work for The Folly team, exploring even if the lives team only has two official members and misadventures of some of the more minor characters in the seriesfiling system dates back 2 centuries. The collection features stories about Pam RavenscroftHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and many of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps he is inclined to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the wider universe hope of Sookie's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many morea free meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally NichollsMoore_Strange|title=Shadow GirlStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyParanormal|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster care system Rosie Strange is that some children get moved around rather a lot back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and usually itfiguring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's not down to themrecently inherited. But because of this itIf Rosie had her way she's easy d be selling the museum and heading back to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By the age of fourteen she was at her third secondary school flat in London - and after being there for two months she hated it. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw but when her being evicted from the school bus Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and then getting lost as she tried Sam to a local businessman, they find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Goddess|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking pointthemselves embroiled in dark events once again. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura Something is shielded wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from it all by her position as a handmaiden chandeliers, scrawled messages in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere rooms and are followed by millions - apparitions walking through 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=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys and despairwalls. Fantasy Before Rosie and science fiction Sam can have all start to look into these things as wellpossibly supernatural occurrences though, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is events take an even darker turn when a great example. It very real body is a book found in the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power ghost was to draw magic from booksblame. He must use this gift to good effect when 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 the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>