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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan Miranda|title=Vengeance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDean Koontz|title=The Woman in Black: Angel of Death|author=Martyn WaitesBad Weather Friend

|summary=ItBenny 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 here at last – possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the novel of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the script of the sequel very last person to the film of the book – that was always better as deserve all this bad luck. He is a stage-playnice person. A really nice person. I'll maintain as long as you like So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the play delivery to his house is the best way a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]], purely help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for the added extra of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leavebeing a good person. Making sequels Spike is going to the film, what with its departures from the sourcetake care of Benny, and will certainly don't marry up with that – instead take care of the ghost going away into the audience itBenny's instead as enemies, if the new characters are compelled he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability of all the best ghost stories Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are on these pages.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesAlly Wilkes|authortitle=Cecily Gayford (editor)All the White Spaces|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling talesIn post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. There are physical ghostsFor Jonathan, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensedthis adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel opportunity to live life as if you’vehis authentic self and true gender, wellwithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, seen Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on funeral shroud over the authorexpedition. The stories are from are from several different periods Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the settings range from winter nights in England party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to sultry summers in Indiaprey on their darkness. This combines If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Coldest Girl in ColdtownT L Huchu|authortitle=Holly BlackThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires existRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and everyone knows ita bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. To try and deal with the problem Ever since she dropped out of vampirismschool, cities have she's been given using it to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can entersupport not only herself, but hardly ever leaveher younger sister and her aging grandmother. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a dayHowever, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see there's an evil stalking the deadliness behind ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the glitzcity's children. Seventeen-year-old Tana Soon, Ropa is about to find outpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire She will end up discovering an occult library and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for realise that the largest Coldtown world of them allmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Can they get there – Will she find the missing children and if they dobring an end to this evil, or will any of them surviveit claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AntigoddessHolly Rivers|authortitle=Kendare BlakeDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=3.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are Demelza Clock is a lot less godlike than they used scientist, often staying up late to be. In factwork on her various gadgets, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside much to her and HermesGrandma Maeve's body is eating itselfirritation. LiterallyHowever, 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. They are on a road trip Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to find out exactly what it master her newfound skills. However, there is killing a mysterious individual on the gods prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to save themselves if they canget to the bottom of this. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>1912626039

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=Memory: SheQueenie Malone's Dying to RememberParadise Hotel|author=Christoph MarziRuth Hogan|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHumour|summary=Jude can see Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the dead. His remains of her mother's life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months agoafter her death. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his fatherWhilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, who works away a lothaven for eccentrics and misfits. InsteadA place where people can be themselves, he spends most and let go of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a circle child, from this place of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskellwonder. Jude feels more at home With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with ghosts than he does with the livingher sometimes cruel and distant mother. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=williamabbey|title=Hold Your BreathThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Caroline GreenClaire North|rating=3.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keysWhen William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, phones, and even peoplehe finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. But she knows that this strange ability can bring troubleA naïve English Doctor, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missinghe slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, she wants to keep her visions as the shadow of the dead boy begins to herselffollow him across the world. The images she sees won't go awayNever stopping, though - should she risk humiliationalways growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, or worse, by trying he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>kill the one he loves the most…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tudor Chalk|title=The Weight of SoulsChalk Man|author=Bryony PearceC J Tudor|rating=3.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited ''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 curse from her mothergirl will be dead. Fated But 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 help ghosts of murder victims get revengeforget about that summer, or be taken by about all the Darkness herselfpoisoned, she lives her life in fear sinister memories of being consumedThe Chalk Man. It's bad enough trying However, someone seems determined not to alienate her only friend, let him and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murderedthe letters start to arrive, she's left trying to solve the crime past follows, plaguing him and also cope with dredging up the realisation shefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniela SacerdotiJester_Forever|title=TideForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=After her parents' deaths at Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the hands offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the demons records department) as they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards the end of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his lies, Sarah turns grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to Nicholas, new sit on the scenein their flat. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harrington1785032461|title=PerceptionThe Girl at the Window|author=Rowan Coleman|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=After solving Trudy Heaton is going home, to a murder over house where her roots burrow back through the summercenturies and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the centre traumatic loss of attention at schoolher husband. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her She needs to use build bridges with her unique gift for show mother and entertainment - but someone convince her grieving son that his father is sending dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>childhood?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kai Meyer1471407764|title=Arcadia BurnsThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=If you havenMartha't 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 [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this seriesweave, 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, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilersand stumbles into world of menace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yelena Black1492687863|title=Dance of ShadowsBellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at Flitting between the New York Ballet Academy present day and mid- but while they16thcentury, ''Bellewether''re tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all trying to become its inhabitants. In the best dancerpresent tense aspects, she has her own reasons for the Wilde House is being thereturned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Three years ago her older sister disappeared It is told from the schoolperspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and shetheir story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's determined sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to find out what happened to Margaretlive there. Can she find out? And will The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two boys taking an interest tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in herhistory, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah White1473203287|title=DeceitSummerland |author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Thinking Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the immortal Doctor defeateddiscovery of the afterlife, Claire the British Empire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normalextended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. Her father has found In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a new girlfriend, Lindsay, race against Soviet spies and Claire quite likes her, despite dealing with a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about mole buried deep in the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthewheart of Summerland. There's even a boyfriendWhen Rachel White, Joean ambitious SIS agent, on becomes suspicious about the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the pastpotential rogue agent, an evil magician ancestor she must decide how far she is willing to go and an ancient prophecy, seem like old newshow much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Becca Fitzpatrick1472235878|title=Finale (Hush Hush) A Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=35

|summary=We left Patch and Nora were finally happily together Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow to her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead story that never shies away from the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yeardarker side of human nature. If she doesn'tThe land is unhappy, both she ''the old spirits want revenge and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend famine is kindling a fallen angelresurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, so once again their relationship it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has to go undergroundtaken root. Nora agrees to a fake relationship The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with Dante, the second-blood and strangers are blowing in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend on a lot wind of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warchange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson1472234782|title=The Haunted BookStory Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola|rating=35

|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone in an empty house… Audrey, a rock group reuniting at their old studios complex mix of flights of fancy and finding there are seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more haunting traces than what everyone expects of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… a nightmare for a round-her, escapes from the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium straightjacket of ghost storiesher home. But what of their authorWhere every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, tasked who only once in his life threw caution to transfer reportage into readable non-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling with the occultwind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, in any shape or form? How long will it be before he finds himself staring at a ghost himself – one that has not confined itself rigorously returned to just upholding what is right, what is proper, the pages bastion of the book he doing what is currently writing, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>expected.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill0751571229|title=DollyWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=An empty house A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the remote fenlands of England, with first page and takes you on a man returning to it alone… roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]dash of ''Whodunit''s namethe thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and the subtitle 'an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a ghost story' on year, the cover… We do seem principal star of her very own show, to be in meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the territory whole array of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beastall laid bare on centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libba BrayAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=The DivinersFurthest Station|author=Ben Aaronovitch

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill When local police find something weird - fresh in from Ohio to spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the city of her dreams after her demonstration of a strange power caused a scandal in society Metropolitan Line, for example - this is what she's always dreamed they call for PC Peter Grant ofthe Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. But dreams can become nightmaresStray river gods, and when Eviemissing Victorian children, her uncle Will and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killerfleeting 18th century dispatch riders, she'll have to use they are all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why shea day's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is (or a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - whatnight's their connection) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem 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 be appearing with evertrust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>aways in the hope of a free meal.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pamela HartshorneMoore_Strange|title=Time's EchoStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Syd Moore

|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Grace Trewe has temporarily moved to York to sort out the affairs of Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her godmotherlast escapade with curator Sam Stone, Lucy, who died suddenly. After surviving the Indonesian tsunami the previous Christmas, Grace has decided to live life and figuring out what on earth to do with the full and plans more travelling once LucyEssex Witch Museum she's house is soldrecently inherited. She hasn’t a care or a tie in the world, as long as If Rosie had her way she doesn't remember little Lucas d be selling the museum and heading back on that Christmas beachto 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 again. As it turns outSomething is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, that's not scrawled messages in the rooms and apparitions walking through the only thing she needs to avoidwalls. Strange, horrific dreams disrupt her sleep Before Rosie and vivid daydreams Sam can start to attack her waking moments as 21st century York keeps fading to be replaced by its 16th century streets. Grace will be fine look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though; it, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in the restaurant - and the owner's just stress and her oddly acquired knowledge of the past is just daughter swears that a coincidence, or so says seemingly kindly neighbour, historian and single father Drewghost was to blame... Meanwhile, 500 years before, there was a woman named Hawise who met a terrible death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033054425X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sophie Jordan|title=Vanish|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into the arms of the Pride. When her mother took her away from them, it was the last thing Jacinda wanted. But now she's back, she wants nothing more than Move on to spread her wings and fly away. But it's not that easy. Severin, leader of the Pride, has her under virtual house arrest. Tamra, Jacinda's twin, is going through some tumultuous changes, and needs the support of the Pride. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in Jacinda's life, the one who brought her back to the Pride, who she is beginning to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Evanovich|title=Wicked Business|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Following on from [[Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich|Wicked AppetiteNewest Pets Reviews]], pastry chef Lizzy and paranormal bounty hunter Diesel continue to seek the seven powerful stones linked to the seven deadly sins. They're looking for the stone associated with lust and it becomes a bit of a treasure hunt as, accompanied by Gloria (the slightly wizardy un-witch) and Carl (the ill-mannered monkey) they have to work their way through a string of clues. However, they aren't the only ones looking; for wherever goodies seek power, the baddies lurk also. The baddies in question are again the deliciously dark (on many levels) Gerwulf (Wulf) Grimoir and his medieval minion Hatchet. Wulf may be Diesel's cousin but there's not a lot of family love in any room they both occupy so let the race to the stone commence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538492X</amazonuk>}}