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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Tudor -->Dean Koontz|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Bad Weather Friend[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Paranormal===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[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 has tried to forget about and it's possible that summer, about all whoever or whatever was inside is the poisoned, sinister memories of thing that has trashed his house! The Chalk Man. Howeverthing is, someone seems determined not Benny is the very last person to let him and when deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the letters start delivery to arrivehis house is a new friend, the past followsa bad weather friend called Spike, plaguing who has been sent to help him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of 1986, populated by fairsBenny, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Edwill certainly take care of Benny's sleepy suburban lifeenemies, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will if he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]Benny, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] 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 Harper (a stoner tooth fairywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as can figure out who exactly they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatare. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]isbn=1662500491}}<!-- Aaronovitch -->{{Frontpage|-author=Ally Wilkes| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|All the White Spaces[[image:Aaronovitvch_Furthest.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473222427?ierating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473222427]]4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Horror===[[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]In post-WWI England, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters Jonathan Morgan stows away on a particular part of an Arctic expedition led by the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Follyfamous Australis Randall. Stray river godsFor Jonathan, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in this adventure represents a day's (or chance for a night's) work for The Folly teamfresh start, even if the team only has two official members and the filing system dates back 2 centuries. He 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 opportunity to trust live life as his hunches authentic self and park outside Chinese take-aways in true gender, without the hope disapproval and constraints of a free mealhis parents. [[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607205X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607205X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2) by Syd Moore]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam StoneHowever, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past 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 shadow of the museum and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to war hangs like a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once againfuneral shroud over the expedition. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliersGuilt, scrawled messages in the rooms mistrust and apparitions walking through grief stalk the walls. Before Rosie party 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 - disaster strikes and the owner's daughter swears that they are forced to overwinter on land, a ghost was menacing presence waits to blameprey on their darkness... [[Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2) by Syd Moore|Full Review]] |} {{newreview|author= Cassandra Parkin|title= The Winter's Child|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary=''A modern Gothic tale If Jonathan is to make it out of twisted lovethe Arctic winter alive, secrets he will have to face his demons once and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death for all, or gypsies being able to tell risk making the futurebarren, 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 sinceicy 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 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 Sherlock Holmes storiesthe curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, but not that many novelsalways growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. Holmes adventures were mostly kept As he finds himself unable to a short story length resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that allowed a quick build up the dark shadow is deadly – and reveal that would fit into an episodic telling. seeks to kill the one he loves the most…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=The best known novel is Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=''The Hound Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the Baskervilles'' new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and anyone a girl will be dead. But who parodies is the great detective would eventually need killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to cover home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the tale poisoned, sinister memories of the cursed Baskerville familyThe Chalk Man. They don't come more parodic than Warlock Holmes However, someone seems determined not to let him and although he may have died at when the end of letters start to arrive, the last bookpast follows, this won't stop plaguing him investigating one and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of his greatest cases1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299738</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= Syd MooreJester_Forever|title= Strange MagicForever After: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought Michael Holland is to take the money a cocky and brash young man who dies and run. Still, gets made the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those offer of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to deathhis lifetime; immortality. And there's curator Sam StoneWe follow Michael, 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 delayed, just for grim reaper and his friends Chip (a while. Finding herself stoner tooth fairy) and Sam embroiled Naff (a stoner in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come records department) as they grapple with their own real, long lives and all too present, danger as finding a strange magic threatens clean surface to envelop them allsit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1785032461|title= Kill The Girl at the Next OneWindow|author=Rowan Coleman|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writerTrudy Heaton is going home, Federico Axat's ''Kill to a house where her roots burrow back through the Next One'centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man she can heal herself and try to come to terms with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre traumatic loss of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the pageher husband. The novel opens She needs to build bridges with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife her mother and two adoring children, but has discovered convince her grieving son that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which father is slowly killing himdead. However, right before he decides to take Where better than the shot house full of light and end his lifeshadow, there is a knock 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 law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1471407764|title= Otherworld ChillsThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating= 45|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary= I came to ArmstrongMartha's ''Otherworld'' quite late world has changed. Blind in its development and it seems that one eye after falling from a tree, she's now wrapping it up to move on to other thingswakes with a disturbing gift. Billed as She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn'final collectiont really want, and knowledge she doesn' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of t understand. She flees to her best loved characters. Igrandmother, Mormor'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolvess cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left instumbles into world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1492687863|title= BetrayalsBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating= 4.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv TaylorFlitting between the present day and mid-Jones has come 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 long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that her biological parents were ends in fact convicted serials killers. But while shea tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's coming sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to an understanding about her fae heritagelive there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the strange visions that are a part of thattruth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, she's not yet ready just as Charley is beginning to make the choice that destiny would have her makeunravel it herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= V H Leslie1473203287|title= Bodies of WaterSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating= 3.54|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is Imagine a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the perspectives discovery of Kirstenthe afterlife, a modern day woman on the mend from a broken heartBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre the Big Smoke for ailing womenthe recently deceased. Kirsten moves into In 1938 the old Wakewater House, attempting to heal herself British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the proximity heart of the waterSummerland. Centuries agoWhen Rachel White, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore her old vigouran ambitious SIS agent, but the water cannot drown out becomes suspicious about the ghost that haunts her. In factpotential rogue agent, the water itself she must decide how far she is a powerful willing to go and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search how much she is willing to risk to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as uncover the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before themtruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1472235878|title= Shadow RiderA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating= 45

|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 Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. If Rosie had her way she'd be selling the Fae world that has existed museum and heading back to her flat in secretLondon - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessman, and her place within itthey find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. But Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages in the more she understands, rooms and apparitions walking through the less she likes itwalls. Visions of Before Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a girl torn between two men continue to plague her – visions very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that are starting a ghost was to feel alarmingly similar to her real life relationships with Gabriel and Rickyblame...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>