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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan 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. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela HartshorneHolly Rivers|title= Demelza and the Spectre 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, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this...|isbn=1912626039}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=TimeQueenie Malone's EchoParadise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

|genre=Historical FictionHumour|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved Tilda returns to York Brighton, to sort out tidy away the affairs remains of her godmother, Lucy, who died suddenlymother's life after her death. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous ChristmasWhilst there, Grace has decided to live life she returns to the full Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and plans more travelling once Lucy's house is soldmisfits. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the worldA place where people can be themselves, as long as she doesn't remember little Lucas back on and let go of thoughts that Christmas beachtorment them elsewhere. As it turns out, Little wonder that's not the only thing she needs to avoid. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt Tilda cannot forgive her sleep and vivid daydreams start to attack mother for banishing her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streetsa child, from this place of wonder. Grace will be fine though; it's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge With the help of the past is just a coincidenceQueenie Malone, caring, or so says seemingly kindly neighbourand gregarious, historian Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and single father Drewdistant mother. Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Jordanwilliamabbey|title=VanishThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a 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 the curse upon him, as the arms shadow of the Pridedead boy begins to follow him across the world. When her mother took her away from themNever stopping, always growing – it was crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the last thing Jacinda wantedtruths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=The Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. But now she's backBy the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, she wants nothing more than to spread her wings and fly awaya girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it's not The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that easy. Severinsummer, leader of about all the Pridepoisoned, has her under virtual house arrestsinister memories of The Chalk Man. TamraHowever, Jacinda's twinsomeone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, is going through some tumultuous changesthe past follows, plaguing him and needs dredging up the support fever dream nightmare of the Pridesummer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in JacindaDriven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the one reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Forever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who brought her back to dies and gets made the Prideoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, who she is beginning 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 to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talentssit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=The Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=The Twisted Tree|author=Rachel 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=Bellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=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 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 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472235878|title=A Gathering of Ghosts|author=Janet EvanovichKaren 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=Wicked BusinessThe 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 her 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=5|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. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Aaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The Furthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch

|genre=Women's FictionParanormal|summary=Following When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked Appetite]]a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sinsSpecial Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. TheyStray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day're looking s (or a night's) work for The Folly team, even if the stone associated with lust team only has two official members and it becomes the filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a bit 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 a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria free meal.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Moore_Strange|title=Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (the slightly wizardy unEssex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore|rating=5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Rosie Strange is back -witch) recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and Carl (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 the illmuseum and heading back to her flat in London -mannered monkey) they have but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam to work their way through a string of clueslocal businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark events once again. HoweverSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, they aren't scrawled messages in the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, rooms and apparitions walking through the baddies lurk alsowalls. The baddies Before Rosie 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 question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir restaurant - and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Dieselthe owner's cousin but there's not daughter swears that a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race ghost was to the stone commenceblame... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>