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{{Frontpage<!-- Tudor -->|author=Dean Koontz[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|lefttitle=The Bad Weather Friend|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.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 tighter, or and someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summerdelivered a really weird, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not disturbing coffin-sized object to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past followshis home, 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 Edit's sleepy suburban life, possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the reader cannot help but wonder; who thing that has trashed his house! The thing is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jester -->*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] ===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland Benny 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 very last person to sit on in their flatdeserve all this bad luck. [[Forever After: He is a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Aaronovitch -->*[[image:Aaronovitvch_Furthestnice person.jpg|left|link=https://www A really nice person.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473222427?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473222427]] ===[[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, So fortunately for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of Benny it turns out that the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersdelivery to his house is a new friend, they are all in a day's (or a night's) work for The Folly teambad weather friend called Spike, even if the team only who has two official members and the filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he good person. Spike is inclined going to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the hope care of a free meal. [[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch|Full Review]]<br> {{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 StoneBenny, and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum shewill certainly take care of Benny'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 businessmanenemies, if he, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliersBenny, scrawled messages on the walls and apparitions walking through the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start to look Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the ownerBenny's daughter swears that a ghost was to blame..wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ParkinAlly Wilkes|title= The Winter's ChildAll the White Spaces|rating= 54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary=''A modern Gothic tale of twisted loveIn post-WWI England, secrets and hauntings'' it says Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the coverfamous Australis Randall. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life after death or gypsies being able to tell as his authentic self and true gender, without the futuredisapproval and constraints of his parents. However, but that hasnJonathan isn't stopped her spending the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a fortune on psychics funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and fortune tellers in grief stalk the desperate hunt for her sonparty and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped If Jonathan is to make it out of school one day after an argument at home the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and has not been seen sincefor all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nalini SinghT L Huchu|title= Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity NovelThe Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalTeens|summary= Jump straight into Ropa Moyo is a rich ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and diverse universe at this designated jumping on pointa bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Visit a world Ever since she dropped out of humansschool, changelings she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and Psyher aging grandmother. The world However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the books have set in has faced search for a dramatic change missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and a new realise that the world-order of peace has been declared. The peace magic is painful far bigger and not universally lovedmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Into Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon evil, or will it'll turn outclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217571</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charles E McGarryHolly Rivers|title= The Ghost of Helen AddisonDemelza and the Spectre Detectors

|genre= ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= Leo Moran Demelza Clock is a gourmandscientist, sleuth and seer of visionsoften staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Beset by ghoulish dreams and apparitions However, she has also inherited a certain set of a terrible crime he leaves skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the safety of his extravagantly furnished Glasgow apartment and sets out to Lock Dhonn ability to aid the police in their investigation of summon the murder ghosts of the eponymous Helen Addisonrecently deceased. Along the way he is visited by Under the phantom form guidance of Helen and her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is besieged by evil forces before tumbling into a rabbit hole of deceitmysterious individual on the prowl, mystery and the dark forces of the occultkidnapping young Spectre Detectors. In a race It's up to solve the case Demelza and stop her best friend Percy to get to the wrong man being accused bottom 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 againthis...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973791</amazonuk>1912626039

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vivian Shaw1473669065|title= Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing NovelQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating= 45|genre= FantasyHumour|summary=''I don't suppose itTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's worth trying life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to convince you it's too dangerous?'' <br>''Not in the least.'' <br>Meet Dr Greta HelsingParadise hotel, a highly talentedhaven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, well respected physician with and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her own specialised medical practice, known and adored throughout London mother for banishing her great work… wellas a child, at least amongst from this place of wonder. With the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but relations have improved since then tricky and uncertain relationship she now spends had with her days carrying on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls sometimes cruel and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what is uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't healdistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G S Denningwilliamabbey|title=Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound Pursuit of the BaskervillesWilliam Abbey|author=Claire North|rating=43.5|genre=ParanormalFantasy|summary=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a lot of Sherlock Holmes storiesyoung boy in 1880's South Africa, but not that many novelshe finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. Holmes adventures were mostly kept to a short story length that allowed a quick build up and reveal that would fit into an episodic telling. The best known novel is ''The Hound A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the Baskervilles'' and anyone who parodies curse upon him, as the shadow of the great detective would eventually need dead boy begins to cover follow him across the tale world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes and although truths that he hears in others, he may have died at also learns that the end of dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the last book, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest cases.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299738</amazonuk>he loves the most…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd MooreTudor Chalk|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)The Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating= 5|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No'The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, not at allconjured during one fateful summer. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits By the time the ramshackle Essex Witch Museumnew term begins, friendships will be fractured, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosiegirl will be dead. There's But who is the eccentric academic who bustles in killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to demand she help in a hunt for old boneshome? Thirty years later, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put Ed has tried to death. And there's curator Sam Stoneforget about that summer, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayedpoisoned, just for a whilesinister memories of The Chalk Man. Finding herself However, someone seems determined not to let him and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mysterywhen the letters start to arrive, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horrorthe past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the secrets fever dream nightmare of the past come with their own realsummer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and all too presentdeath. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>and will he ever let Ed go?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico AxatJester_Forever|title= Kill the Next OneForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersHorror|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where Michael Holland is a middle-aged cocky and brash young 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 who dies and gets made the edges offer of the pagehis lifetime; immortality. The novel opens with Ted McKay We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including friends Chip (a beautiful wife stoner tooth fairy) and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also Naff (a stoner in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. However, right before he decides to take the shot records department) as they grapple with their long lives and end his life, there is finding a knock clean surface to sit on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the lawin their flat. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1785032461|title= Otherworld ChillsThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating= 45|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary= I came Trudy Heaton is going home, to Armstrong's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and it seems that to a mother shehasn's now wrapping it up to move on t spoken to other thingsfor sixteen years. Billed as Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines traumatic loss of her best loved charactershusband. I'd disagreeShe needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure WerewolvesWhere better than the house full of light and shadow, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1471407764|title= BetrayalsThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating= 45|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones Martha's world has come changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a long way since tree, she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killerswakes with a disturbing gift. But while She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights shedoesn's coming t really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of thatgrandmother, sheMormor's not yet ready cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to make the choice that destiny would have her makegive, and stumbles into world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= V H Leslie1492687863|title= Bodies of WaterBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating= 34.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from Flitting between the perspectives of Kirsten, a modern present day woman on the mend from a broken heart, and Evelynmid-16thcentury, a nineteenth century 'guest' Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of a water treatment centre for ailing womenthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. Kirsten moves into In the present tense aspects, the old Wakewater Wilde House, attempting is being turned into a museum due to heal herself with the proximity legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the water. Centuries agomuseum curator, Evelyn was forced who is intrigued by her father to visit that same house in order to restore her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that who haunts her. In fact, the water itself is house and their story; a tale that ends in a powerful tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and supernatural forcea French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. As The perspective of the water encroaches upon both of their livesbook is continuously shifted between Charley, Kirsten then Lydia and Evelyn search to unveil Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the mysteries of the house truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before themCharley is beginning to unravel it herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1473203287|title= Shadow RiderSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating= 4

|summary=Stefano Ferraro is Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the head discovery of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing carsthe afterlife, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many piesBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, and not all of them are legalthe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. Splashed across In 1938 the gossip columns of every newspaper British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and magazine dealing with a mole buried deep in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group heart of gorgeous beings to be reckoned withSummerland. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travelWhen Rachel White, unseenan ambitious SIS agent, through becomes suspicious about the shadows; a power which they use potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them risk to protect their neighbourhood from uncover the criminal underworldtruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G S Denning1472235878|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneGathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=4.5

|summary=A wise fictional character once said Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be never shies away from the truthdarker side of human nature. With this in mind – what The land is Sherlock Holmes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on a different plainunhappy, or perhaps the more obvious option old spirits want revenge and famine is that he was kindling a Warlock? resurgence of the old faith. Surely his ability As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to see what others cannot ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is more likely to be through magictainted, rather than intellect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1472234782|title=Book of LiesThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola|rating=3.5

|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book Audrey, a complex mix of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense flights of identityfancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, relationship troublesto be more than what everyone expects of her, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: escapes from the supernaturalstraightjacket of her home. The story starts when identical twin girls (Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the charmingly named Piper wind and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birthmarried way beneath him for love. We follow their journey as they discover each other Now a widower and reveal the complexities of their shared familyremarried, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural storieshe has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, there are hints of witchcraftwhat is proper, hounds the bastion of death and family cursesdoing what is expected. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah0751571229|title=When The Visitors BookCurtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=3.5

|summary= Sophie HannahA 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's The Visitors Book is a short anthology ' the thrill of romance, (the course of modern stories with a supernatural twistwhich never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. There is not The ghost appears once a hammy gothic turret in sight as year, the principal star of her characters experience their mundanevery own show, day-tomeet with the love of her life and re-day, 21st century business -- a children's birthday partyenact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, a visit to a boyfriendjoy, neck paincare, the school run. Nowfriendship, ghost stories based on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be very unsettling indeedjealousy, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at the bus stoppossessiveness, or giving them goosebumps for no apparent reason. So I was curious to see what Sophie Hannahselfishness, a writer I much admirecold ambition, would make of this particular materialall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelley ArmstrongAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=DeceptionsThe Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=4.5

|summary=Liv is starting to understand 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 Fae world that has existed Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in secreta day's (or a night's) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and her place within itthe filing system dates back 2 centuries. But the more she understandsHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a 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 less she likes it. Visions hope of a girl torn between two men continue to plague her – visions that are starting to feel alarmingly similar to her real life relationships with Gabriel and Rickyfree meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert BrockwayMoore_Strange|title= The UnnoticeablesStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Carey Rosie Strange is a punk living in New York Cityback - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, 1977and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. Sick of watching his friends If Rosie had her way she'd be abducted and killed, he doesn’t care about selling the rumours of strange monsters museum and supernatural happenings – all he wants heading back to do is drink beer her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and kick assSam to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. In the present daySomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, Kaitlyn is scrawled messages in Hollywoodthe rooms and apparitions walking through the walls. 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>