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{{Frontpage<!-- Tudor -->|author=Dean Koontz[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|lefttitle=The Bad Weather Friend|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]5|genre===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]===Paranormal[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows Benny is having a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summerterrifically bad day. By the time the new term begins He loses his job, friendships will be fracturedhe loses his fiancee, and a girl will be deadhis house gets trashed. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man Oh, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighterand someone has delivered a really weird, or someone much closer disturbing coffin-sized object to his home? Thirty years later, Ed and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has tried trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to forget about deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that summer, about all the poisoneddelivery to his house is a new friend, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. Howevera bad weather friend called Spike, someone seems determined not who has been sent to let help him and when the letters start since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to arrive, the past followstake care of Benny, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare will certainly take care of the summer of 1986Benny's enemies, if he, populated by fairsBenny, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into the mysterious events surrounding EdBenny's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; wild adventure) can figure out who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudorexactly they are.|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1662500491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David JesterAlly Wilkes|title= Forever After: a dark comedyAll the White Spaces|rating= 4|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Michael Holland is In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a cocky fresh start, and brash young man who dies the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and gets made true gender, without the offer disapproval and constraints of his lifetime; immortalityparents. We follow MichaelHowever, a grim reaper Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and his friends Chip (the shadow of the war hangs like a stoner tooth fairy) funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and Naff (a stoner in grief stalk the records department) as party and, when disaster strikes and they grapple with their long lives and finding are forced to overwinter on land, a clean surface menacing presence waits to sit prey on in their flatdarkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchT L Huchu|title=The Furthest StationLibrary of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeTeens|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a particular part bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Metropolitan Line, dead of Edinburgh for example - they call for PC Peter Grant their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the Special Assessment Unitruined streets of Edinburgh, also known as The Follytargeting the city's children. Stray river godsSoon, 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 more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing Victorian childrenand bring an end to this evil, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Folly.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreHolly Rivers|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)Demelza and the Spectre Detectors

|genre= ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=Rosie Strange Demelza Clock is back - recovering after a scientist, often staying up late to work on her last escapade with curator Sam Stonevarious gadgets, and figuring out what on earth much to do with the Essex Witch Museum sheher Grandma Maeve's recently inheritedirritation. If Rosie had her way However, she'd be selling has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the museum and heading back ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her flat in London - but when Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessmannewfound skills. However, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. Something there is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages a mysterious individual on the walls and apparitions walking through the wallsprowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Before Rosie It's up to Demelza and Sam can start her best friend Percy to get 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 blamebottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>1912626039

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Parkin1473669065|title= The WinterQueenie Malone's ChildParadise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating= 5|genre= ParanormalHumour|summary=''A modern Gothic tale of twisted loveTilda returns to Brighton, secrets and hauntings'' it says on to tidy away the cover. Iremains of her mother'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in s life after her death or gypsies being able . Whilst there, she returns to tell the futureParadise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, but and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that hasn't stopped Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her spending as a fortune on psychics child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and fortune tellers in gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the desperate hunt for tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home sometimes cruel and has not been seen sincedistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nalini Singhwilliamabbey|title= Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity NovelThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating= 43.5|genre= ParanormalFantasy|summary= Jump straight into When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on pointyoung boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. Visit a world A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of humansthe curse upon him, changelings and Psy. The world as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the books have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. The peace is painful Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and not universally lovedmountains in pursuit of William. Into this world a bear falls As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in love with an emotionless Psy others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217571</amazonuk>and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles E McGarryTudor Chalk|title= The Ghost of Helen AddisonChalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating= 5|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Leo Moran is ''The Chalk Man'' follows a gourmandgroup of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, sleuth and seer of visionsconjured during one fateful summer. Beset by ghoulish dreams By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and apparitions of a terrible crime he leaves girl will be dead. But who is the safety of his extravagantly furnished Glasgow apartment and sets out killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to Lock Dhonn home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to aid forget about that summer, about all the police in their investigation poisoned, sinister memories of the murder of the eponymous Helen AddisonThe Chalk Man. Along However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the way he is visited by letters start to arrive, the phantom form of Helen and is besieged by evil forces before tumbling into a rabbit hole of deceitpast follows, mystery plaguing him and dredging up the dark forces fever dream nightmare of the occult. In a race to solve the case and stop the wrong man being accused summer of such a ghastly crime1986, populated by fairs, Leo must draw on all his skills ra-ra skirts and convince death. Driven deeper into the police that mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the killer reader cannot help but wonder; who is still at large The Chalk Man, and waiting to strike again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973791</amazonuk>will he ever let Ed go?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vivian ShawJester_Forever|title= Strange PracticeForever After: A Dr Greta Helsing Novela dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 4|genre= FantasyHorror|summary=''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the leastoffer of his lifetime; immortality.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta HelsingWe follow Michael, a highly talented, well respected physician with her own specialised medical practice, known grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and adored throughout London for her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is Naff (a stoner in fact a descendent of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but relations have improved since then records department) as they grapple with their long lives and she now spends her days carrying finding a clean surface to sit on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the likein their flat. 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|authorisbn=G S Denning1785032461|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of Girl at the BaskervillesWindow|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=4.5

|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot of Sherlock Holmes storiesTrudy Heaton is going home, but not that many novels. Holmes adventures were mostly kept to a short story length that allowed house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a quick build up and reveal that would fit into an episodic tellingmother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. The best known novel is ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and anyone who parodies the great detective would eventually need try to come to cover terms with the tale traumatic loss of the cursed Baskerville familyher husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. They don't come more parodic Where better than Warlock Holmes and although he may have died at the end house full of the last booklight and shadow, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest cases.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1471407764|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)The Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Rosie Strange doesnMartha't believe s world has changed. Blind in ghosts or witches or magic. Noone eye after falling from a tree, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts wakes with a curious pull over Rosiedisturbing gift. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bonesShe can read people through their clothes, those of secrets tumble from the notorious Ursula Cadenceweave, a witch long since put to death. And thererevealing insights she doesn's curator Sam Stonet really want, a man about whom Rosie canand knowledge she doesn't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivatingunderstand. It all adds up She flees to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayedgrandmother, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mysteryMormor's cabin, Rosie seeking answers no one is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where prepared to her horrorgive, the secrets and stumbles into world of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them allmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1492687863|title= Kill the Next OneBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary= After getting started with Flitting between the opening chapters of Spanish writerpresent day and mid-16thcentury, Federico Axat's 'Bellewether'Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around tells the edges fascinating tale of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay Wilde House and his Browning pointed to his templeall its inhabitants. He has In the perfect lifepresent tense aspects, including the Wilde House is being turned into a beautiful wife and two adoring children, but has discovered that he museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is also in possession told from the perspective of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. HoweverCharley, right before he decides to take the shot and end his lifemuseum curator, there who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a knock on his door. Standing behind it is tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an allFrench-knowing organisation that turns wouldCanadian lieutenant, Jean-be suicides into opportunities Philippe who was sent to correct the imbalances live there. The perspective of the lawbook is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. TedThe latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves just as Charley is beginning to unravel itherself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1473203287|title= Otherworld ChillsSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating= 4|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary= I came Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to Armstrong's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development and it seems that she's now wrapping it up fear but something to move on aspire to other things. Billed as After the 'final collection' discovery of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines 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 race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of her best loved charactersSummerland. I'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure WerewolvesWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, Vampires she must decide how far she is willing to go and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left inhow much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1472235878|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part A Gathering of that, she's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGhosts|author= V H Leslie|title= Bodies of WaterKaren Maitland|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives of Kirsten, a modern day woman on the mend from a broken heart, and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House, attempting to heal herself with the proximity of the water. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts her. In fact, the water itself is a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4

|summary=Stefano Ferraro is Witchcraft, the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, supernatural and the Ferraros seem will to have their fingers survive at all costs collide in many pies, and not all a story that never shies away from the darker side of them are legalhuman nature. Splashed across The land is unhappy, the gossip columns of every newspaper old spirits want revenge and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are famine is kindling a group resurgence of gorgeous beings the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to be reckoned withignore that something rotten has taken root. The family have a secret though; they sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; blowing in on a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldwind of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G S Denning1472234782|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola|rating=4.5

|summary=A wise fictional character once said that when you have excluded the impossibleAudrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, whatever remainswanting, however improbableneeding, must to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the truthstraightjacket of her home. With this Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in mind – what is Sherlock Holmes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a different plainwidower and remarried, or perhaps the more obvious option is that he was a Warlock? Surely his ability has rigorously returned to see upholding what is right, what others cannot is more likely to be through magicproper, rather than intellect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>the bastion of doing what is expected.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry0751571229|title=Book of LiesWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=3.5

|summary= As teenage fiction 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 ''Book of LiesWhodunit'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense thrill of identityromance, relationship troubles(the course of which never runs smoothly, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural) and an unpredictable ghost. The story starts when identical twin girls (ghost appears once a year, the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagersprincipal star of her very own show, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal to meet with the complexities love of their shared family, their terrifying dreams her life and sinister nonre-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human abilitiesnature. As with all good supernatural storiesLove, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, there are hints of witchcraftcold ambition, hounds of death and family cursesall laid bare on centre stage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie HannahAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The Visitors BookFurthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=3.54

|summary= Sophie Hannah's The Visitors Book is When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a short anthology particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of modern stories with a supernatural twistthe Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. There is not a hammy gothic turret in sight as her characters experience their mundaneStray river gods, day-to-daymissing Victorian children, 21st fleeting 18th century business -- dispatch riders, they are all in a childrenday's birthday party, (or a visit to a boyfriend, neck painnight's) work for The Folly team, even if 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 team only has two official members and the bus stop, or giving them goosebumps for no apparent reasonfiling system dates back 2 centuries. So I was curious to see what Sophie HannahHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a writer I much admire, would make 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 the hope of this particular materiala free meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelley ArmstrongMoore_Strange|title=DeceptionsStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating=4.5

|summary=Liv Rosie Strange is starting back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what on earth to understand do with the Fae world that has existed in secret, and Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. If Rosie had her place within it. But the more way she understands, 'd be selling the less she likes it. Visions of a girl torn between two men continue museum and heading back to plague her – visions that are starting to feel alarmingly similar to flat in London - but when her real life relationships with Gabriel Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Ricky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Brockway|title= The Unnoticeables|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Carey is Sam to a punk living local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in New York City, 1977dark events once again. Sick of watching his friends be abducted and killedSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, he doesn’t care about scrawled messages in the rumours of strange monsters rooms and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer and kick ass. In apparitions walking through the present day, Kaitlyn is in Hollywoodwalls. A stuntwomanBefore Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, she has events take an even darker turn when a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt on her life, and an angel very real body is waiting outside her door. The survival of the human race lies found in the hands of Carey restaurant - and Kaitlynthe owner's daughter swears that a ghost was to blame... We are, all of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>