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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Dean Koontz <!-- Fletcher -->|title=The Bad Weather Friend|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Paranormal[[image:0751571229.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwBenny is having a terrifically bad day.amazon He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed.co.uk/dp/0751571229/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[When sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]=== [[image:5starthing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]a bad weather friend called Spike, [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the first page and takes you on nefarious forces for being a roller coaster ride towards the lastgood person. Fletcher weaves together a dash Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny''Whodunit'' the thrill of romances enemies, if he, (the course of which never runs smoothlyBenny,) and an unpredictable ghostHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. 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. A tragic accident with |isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the roots buried deep within White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the whole array of human naturefamous Australis Randall. LoveFor Jonathan, joythis adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, careand the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, friendshipwithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage. <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor ChalkJonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness.jpgIf 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.|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]1789097835}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"T L Huchu|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]title=The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a group bit of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summerScottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. By the time the new term beginsEver since she dropped out of school, friendships will be fracturedshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and a girl will be deadher aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. But who Soon, Ropa is pulled into the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, 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 children and bring an end to this evil, or someone much closer to homewill it claim her too? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all |isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk ManSpectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, someone seems determined she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to let him and when summon the ghosts of the letters start to arrive, recently deceased. Under the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare guidance of the summer of 1986her Grandma Maeve, populated by fairsDemelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, ra-ra skirts and deaththere is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding EdIt's sleepy suburban life, up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudorbottom of this...|isbn=1912626039}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1473669065<br>|title=Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel <!-- Jester -->|author=Ruth Hogan|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Humour[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazonTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death.coWhilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits.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 place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4starchild, from this place of wonder.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]With the help of Queenie Malone, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]caring, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper tricky and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jesterdistant mother.}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]] <!-- Aaronovitch -->isbn=williamabbey|-title=The Pursuit of William Abbey| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Claire North[[image:Aaronovitvch_Furthest.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www3.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473222427?ie5|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473222427]]Fantasy| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Furthest Station When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by Ben Aaronovitch]]=== [[image:4starthe grieving mother.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 A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the Metropolitan Linecurse upon him, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the Special Assessment Unitworld. Never stopping, also known as The Follyalways growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. Stray river godsAs he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day's (or a night's) work for The Folly team, even if he also learns that 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 dark shadow is a nicely wry deadly – and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined seeks to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in kill the hope of a free meal. [[The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch|Full Review]]one he loves the most…}}<!-- Moore -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Tudor Chalk| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor[[image:Moore_Strange.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607205X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607205X]]5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Horror===[[Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2) by Syd Moore]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stoneconjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inherited. If Rosie had her way she'd friendships will be selling the museum fractured, and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once againa girl will be dead. Something But who 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 to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences thoughkiller; is it The Chalk Man, 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 whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried 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_Winterforget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785079034/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; textHowever, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-align: left;"|===[[The Winterra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's Child by Cassandra Parkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] ''A modern Gothic tale of twisted lovesleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, secrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I'll will he ever let Ed go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, but that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since. [[The Winter's Child by Cassandra Parkin|Full Review]] <!-- Singh -->|-| style="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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel by Nalini Singh]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a world of humans, changelings and Psy. The world the books have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. The peace is painful and not universally loved. Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out? [[Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel by Nalini Singh|Full Review]] <!-- McGarry -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcgarry_Ghost.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846973791/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Ghost of Helen Addison by Charles E McGarry]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Leo Moran is a gourmand, sleuth and seer of visions. Beset by ghoulish dreams and apparitions of a terrible crime he leaves the safety of his extravagantly furnished Glasgow apartment and sets out to Lock Dhonn to aid the police in their investigation of the murder of the eponymous Helen Addison. Along the way he is visited by the phantom form of Helen and is besieged by evil forces before tumbling into a rabbit hole of deceit, mystery and the dark forces of the occult. In a race to solve the case and stop the wrong man being accused of such a ghastly crime, Leo must draw on all his skills and convince the police that the killer is still at large and waiting to strike again. [[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]] ''I don't suppose it's worth trying to convince you it's too dangerous?''<br>''Not in the least.'' Meet Dr Greta Helsing, a highly talented, well respected physician with her own specialised medical practice, known and adored throughout London for her great work… well, at least amongst the supernatural community. Greta is in fact a descendent of the vampire hunter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, but family relations with the undead have improved since then and she now spends her days carrying on her father's legacy treating vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls and the like. So early morning emergency calls are not uncommon; what ''is'' uncommon however, is a vampire's stab wound that won't heal. [[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 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 of Sherlock Holmes stories, but not that many novels. 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 of the Baskervilles 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 than Warlock Holmes and although he may have died at the end of the last book, this won't stop him investigating one of his greatest cases. [[Warlock Holmes - The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G S Denning|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore_Essex.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786070987/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1) by Syd Moore]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] 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 is to take the money and run. Still, 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 of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, 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 a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled 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 with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all. [[Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1) by Syd Moore|Full Review]] <!-- Axat -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Axat_Kill.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911231065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Kill the Next One by Federico Axat]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] 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 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 the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also 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 and end his life, 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. [[Kill the Next One by Federico Axat|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Otherworld Chills|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= I came to Armstrong's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development and it seems that she's now wrapping it up to move on to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of her best loved characters. I'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley ArmstrongJester_Forever|title= BetrayalsForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 4|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come Michael Holland is a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killerscocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritageWe follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the strange visions that are records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a part of that, she's not yet ready clean surface to make the choice that destiny would have her makesit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= V H Leslie1785032461|title= Bodies of WaterThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water Trudy Heaton is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives of Kirstengoing home, to a modern day woman on house where her roots burrow back through the mend from a broken heart, centuries and Evelyn, to a nineteenth century mother she hasn'guest' of a water treatment centre t spoken to for ailing womensixteen years. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, attempting to where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the proximity traumatic loss of the waterher husband. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by She needs to build bridges with her father to visit that same house in order to restore mother and convince her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost grieving son that haunts her. In fact, the water itself his father is a powerful and supernatural forcedead. As Where better than the water encroaches upon both house full of their liveslight and shadow, 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>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1471407764|title= Shadow RiderThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating= 45

|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega businessMartha's world has changed. From hotels to racing carsBlind in one eye after falling from a tree, the Ferraros seem to have she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their fingers in many piesclothes, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across secrets tumble from the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned withknowledge she doesn't understand. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them She flees to travelher grandmother, unseenMormor's cabin, through the shadows; a power which they use seeking answers no one is prepared to serve justice when the legal system failsgive, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldand stumbles into world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G S Denning1492687863|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley

|summary=A wise fictional character once said Flitting between the present day and mid-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 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 when you have excluded ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to 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 was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Summerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=4|genre=Paranormal|summary=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 impossibleheart of Summerland. When Rachel White, whatever remainsan ambitious SIS agent, however improbablebecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must be decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. With this }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472235878|title=A Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in mind – what 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 Sherlock Holmes? kindling a resurgence of the old faith. A genius eccentric whose mind works 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 different plainwind of change.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472234782|title=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, or perhaps escapes from the more obvious option straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is that 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 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?the bastion of doing what is expected.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0751571229|title=When The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>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. A 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri TerryAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Book of LiesThe Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch|rating=3.54

|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>

{{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

|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>