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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Fletcher -->Dean Koontz|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Bad Weather Friend[[image:0751571229.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751571229/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Paranormal|summary===[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]=== [[image:5starBenny is having a terrifically bad day.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] He loses his job, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]he loses his fiancee, [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] A thoroughlyand his house gets trashed. Oh, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you on someone has delivered a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romancereally weird, (the course of which never runs smoothlydisturbing coffin-sized object to his home,) and an unpredictable ghost. it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The ghost appears once a yearthing is, Benny is the principal star of her very own show, last person to meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, deserve all laid bare on centre stagethis bad luck<!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalk He is a nice person.jpg|left|link=https://www A really nice person.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term beginsfriend, friendships will be fractureda bad weather friend called Spike, and who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a girl will be deadgood person. But who Spike is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer going to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories take care of The Chalk Man. HoweverBenny, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrivewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986if 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]]isbn=1662500491<br>}} <!-- Jester -->{{Frontpage|-author=Ally Wilkes| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|All the White Spaces[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Horror===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]In post-WWI England, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the offer of his lifetime; immortalityfamous Australis Randall. We follow MichaelFor Jonathan, this adventure represents a grim reaper and his friends Chip (chance for a stoner tooth fairy) fresh start, and Naff (a stoner in the records department) opportunity to live life as they grapple with their long lives his authentic self and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Aaronovitch -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Aaronovitvch_Furthest.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473222427?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473222427]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]true gender, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of without the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant disapproval and constraints of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Follyhis parents. Stray river godsHowever, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a dayJonathan isn's (or a night's) work for The Folly team, even if t the team only has two official members and one fleeing 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 to trust confines of his hunches past and park outside Chinese take-aways in the hope shadow of the war hangs like a free meal. [[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.amazonfuneral shroud over the expedition.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 StoneGuilt, mistrust 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 grief stalk the museum party and heading back to her flat in London - but , when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie disaster strikes 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 in the rooms and apparitions walking through the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start are forced to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences thoughoverwinter on land, events take an even darker turn when a very real body menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is found in the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that a ghost was to blame... [[Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2) by Syd Moore|Full Review]] <!-- Parkin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parkin_Winter.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785079034/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Winter's Child by Cassandra Parkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] ''A modern Gothic tale 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 sonicy landscape his tomb. 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. [[The Winter's Child by Cassandra Parkin|Full Review]] <!-- Singh -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Singh_Silver.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217571/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1789097835}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|T L Huchu===[[Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel by Nalini Singh]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a world The Library 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? [[Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel by Nalini Singh|Full Review]] <!-- McGarry -->Dead|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcgarry_Ghost4.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846973791/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Ghost of Helen Addison by Charles E McGarry]]===Teens[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Leo Moran Ropa Moyo is a gourmandghostalker, sleuth using Zimbabwean magic (and seer of visions. Beset by ghoulish dreams and apparitions of a terrible crime he leaves the safety bit of his extravagantly furnished Glasgow apartment and sets out Scottish pragmatism) to Lock Dhonn to aid take messages from the police in dead of Edinburgh for their investigation of the murder of the eponymous Helen Addisonliving relatives. Along the way he is visited by the phantom form Ever since she dropped out of Helen and is besieged by evil forces before tumbling into a rabbit hole of deceitschool, 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. [[The Ghost of Helen Addison by Charles E McGarry|Full Review]] <!-- Shaw -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Shaw_Strange.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508870/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel by Vivian Shaw]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] she''I don't suppose s been using it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?''<br>''Not in the least.'' Meet Dr Greta Helsingsupport not only herself, a highly talented, well respected physician with but her own specialised medical practice, known younger sister and adored throughout London for her great work… wellaging grandmother. However, at least amongst there's an evil stalking the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent ruined streets of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van HelsingEdinburgh, but family relations with targeting the undead have improved since then and she now spends her days carrying on her fathercity's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the likechildren. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what ''is'' uncommon howeverSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a vampire's stab wound that won't heal. [[Strange Practice: A Dr Greta Helsing Novel by Vivian Shaw|Full Review]] <!-- Denning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Denning_Warlock.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783299738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of missing boy at the Baskervilles by G S Denning]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot request of Sherlock Holmes stories, but not that many novelshis dead mother. Holmes adventures were mostly kept to a short story length that allowed a quick build She will end up discovering an occult library and reveal realise that would fit into an episodic telling. The best known novel the world of magic is The Hound of the Baskervilles far bigger and anyone who parodies the great detective would eventually need to cover the tale of the cursed Baskerville family. They don't come more parodic dangerous than Warlock Holmes she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and although he may have died at the bring an end of the last bookto this evil, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest cases. [[Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G S Denningor will it claim her too?|Full Review]]isbn= 1529039452  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreHolly Rivers|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)Demelza and the Spectre Detectors
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|genre= ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= Rosie Strange doesnDemelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve't believe in ghosts or witches or magics irritation. NoHowever, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is ability to take summon the money and run. Still, ghosts of the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosierecently deceased. There's Under the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those guidance of the notorious Ursula Cadenceher Grandma Maeve, a witch long since put Demelza begins to deathmaster her newfound skills. And However, there's curator Sam Stoneis a mysterious individual on the prowl, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if hekidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like Demelza and her plans to sell the museum might need best friend Percy to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where get to her horror, the secrets bottom of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them allthis...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>1912626039
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1473669065|title= Kill the Next OneQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersHumour|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One''Tilda returns to Brighton, 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-tidy away the-numbers thriller. The spectre remains of Lee Childher mother's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the pagelife after her death. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed Whilst there, she returns to his temple. He has the perfect lifeParadise hotel, including a beautiful wife haven for eccentrics and two adoring childrenmisfits. A place where people can be themselves, but has discovered and let go of thoughts that he is also in possession torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himwonder. HoweverWith the help of Queenie Malone, caring, right before he decides to take the shot and end his lifegregarious, 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 Tilda begins to correct pick apart the imbalances of the lawtricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrongwilliamabbey|title= Otherworld ChillsThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy|summary= I came When William Abbey fails to Armstrong's ''Otherworld'' quite late prevent the lynching of a young boy in its development and it seems that she1880's now wrapping it up to move on to other thingsSouth Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. Billed A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the 'final collection' shadow of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of her best loved characters. I'd disagreethe dead boy begins to follow him across the world. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure WerewolvesNever stopping, Vampires always growing – it crosses oceans and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left mountains inpursuit of William.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley ArmstrongTudor Chalk|title= BetrayalsThe Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating= 45|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come ''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 long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killersgirl will be dead. But while she's coming 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 an understanding forget about her fae heritagethat summer, about all the strange visions that are a part poisoned, sinister memories of thatThe Chalk Man. However, she's someone seems determined not yet ready to make let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the choice that destiny would have her makesummer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= V H LeslieJester_Forever|title= Bodies of WaterForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 3.54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Bodies of Water Michael Holland is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the perspectives offer of Kirstenhis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a modern day woman on the mend from grim reaper and his friends Chip (a broken heart, stoner tooth fairy) and Evelyn, Naff (a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into stoner in the old Wakewater House, attempting to heal herself records department) as they grapple 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 long lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search finding a clean surface to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before themsit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1785032461|title= Shadow RiderThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating= 45
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|summary=Stefano Ferraro Trudy Heaton is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing carsgoing home, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across a house where her roots burrow back through the gossip columns of every newspaper centuries and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are to a group of gorgeous beings mother she hasn't spoken to be reckoned withfor sixteen years. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel Home, her refuge, unseenPonden Hall, through where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the shadows; a power which they use traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to serve justice when build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the legal system failshouse full of light and shadow, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=The Twisted Tree|author=G S DenningRachel Burge|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, and stumbles into world of menace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley
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|summary=A wise fictional character once said that when you have excluded Flitting between the impossiblepresent day and mid-16thcentury, whatever remains''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, however improbable, must be the truthWilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. With this in mind – what It is Sherlock Holmes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on a different plaintold from the perspective of Charley, or perhaps the more obvious option museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that he ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was a Warlock? Surely his ability sent to see live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what others cannot was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is more likely beginning to be through magic, rather than intellect?unravel it herself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Summerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=4|genre=Paranormal|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of 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 Summerland. When 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 truth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472235878|title=A Gathering of Ghosts|author=Teri TerryKaren Maitland|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472234782|title=Book The Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of Liesher home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0751571229|title=When The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=35|genre=Paranormal|summary=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 ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own show, to meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death.5A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Aaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=4
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|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of Lies'' has all the usual themes Metropolitan Line, for example -- confused sense they call for PC Peter Grant of identitythe Special Assessment Unit, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernaturalknown as The Folly. The story starts when identical twin girls Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day's (the charmingly named Piper and Quinnor a night's) are reunited as teenagerswork for The Folly team, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other even if the team only has two official members and reveal the complexities of their shared familyfiling system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, their terrifying dreams but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and sinister nonhe is inclined to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds aways in the hope of death and family cursesa free meal. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie HannahMoore_Strange|title=The Visitors BookStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating=3.5
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|summary= Sophie HannahRosie 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 The Visitors Book is a short anthology of modern stories with a supernatural twistrecently inherited. There is not a hammy gothic turret in sight as If Rosie had her characters experience their mundane, day-way she'd be selling the museum and heading back toher flat in London -day, 21st century business -- a children's birthday party, a visit but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a boyfriendlocal businessman, neck painthey find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages in the school runrooms and apparitions walking through the walls. NowBefore Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, ghost stories based on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be events take an even darker turn when a very unsettling indeed, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at real body is found in the restaurant - and the bus stop, or giving them goosebumps for no apparent reason. So I owner's daughter swears that a ghost was curious to see what Sophie Hannah, a writer I much admire, would make of this particular materialblame...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>
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