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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=PrinterThe 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 Devil Courtpossible 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Susan HillAlly Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=54
|genre=Horror
|summary=Susan Hill is In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by far the master of the old fashioned ghost story. If you've ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famousAustralis Randall. That doesn’t make them any less goodFor Jonathan, and I for one am this adventure represents a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said chance for a good old fashioned scarefresh start, with apparitionsand the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, goosebumps without the disapproval and cold chills up constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the spine. I always feel confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like I should be reading these books around a campfirefuneral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, wrapped in a blanket mistrust and grief stalk the party and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends , when I was disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a childmenacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. What I like If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to call a ‘proper scare’face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>1789097835
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Help for the HauntedT L Huchu|authortitle=John SearlesThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Rose Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Sylvester Mason make a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living from helping the hauntedrelatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, performing exorcisms but her younger sister and running seminars across America on her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the subject ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the paranormalcity's children. When they are murdered in Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a church, their daughters, Rose missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and Sylvi, are left negotiating realise that the complex legacy their work has left behindworld 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FirelightHolly Rivers|authortitle=Kristen CallihanDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=3.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer Demelza Clock is a man feared throughout Londonscientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Dark and broodingHowever, he hides behind she has also inherited a maskcertain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, scared the ability to summon the ghosts of revealing the disfigurement that has had him searching across recently deceased. Under the world for a cureguidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. Seeking companionshipHowever, he weds Miranda Ellisthere is a mysterious individual on the prowl, a kidnapping young woman from a family reduced Spectre Detectors. It's up to poverty. As Miranda Demelza and Benjamin come her best friend Percy to get to know and love each other, secrets are revealed that could destroy not just the relationship, but both bottom of themthis...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>1912626039
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=VisionsQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Kelley ArmstrongRuth Hogan
|rating=5
|genre=ParanormalHumour|summary=Olivia JonesTilda returns to Brighton, daughter to tidy away the remains of serial killers, has successfully proved her parents innocent of one murdermother's life after her death. With that seed of doubt plantedWhilst there, she's out returns to prove them innocent of the restParadise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. She knows the A place where people can be themselves, and let go of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are saying, but trying to get thoughts that torment them to talk about anything - from elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her parents to Olivia's strange ability to read omens - is like trying to get get blood from a stone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Better Homes and Hauntings|author=Molly Harper|rating=4|genre=Paranormal|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private island, it's a chance mother for banishing her to escape the difficulties of her past and start rebuilding her failing landscaping business. If she can do as a good job herechild, it will open all sorts from this place of doors to wonder. With the upper class marketshelp of Queenie Malone, caring, and on a private islandgregarious, surely her horrible ex can't find ways Tilda begins to sabotage pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>sometimes cruel and distant mother.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=williamabbey|title=Dead But Not ForgottenThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Claire North
|rating=3.5
|genre=AnthologiesFantasy|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns When William Abbey fails to Sookie Stackhouseprevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's worldSouth Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, exploring he slowly learns the lives and misadventures weight of some the curse upon him, as the shadow of the more minor characters in dead boy begins to follow him across the seriesworld. The collection features stories about Pam RavenscroftNever stopping, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba always growing – it crosses oceans and many mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the other colourful characters from Bon Temps truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the wider universe of Sookie's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>one he loves the most…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally NichollsTudor Chalk|title=Shadow GirlThe Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHorror|summary=One ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the disadvantages of time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the foster care system 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 forget about that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually it's summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not down to them. But because of this it's easy let him and when the letters start to see making friends as being a wasted effort arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the age summer of fourteen she was at her third secondary school 1986, populated by fairs, ra- ra skirts and after being there for two months she hated itdeath. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the school bus reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>will he ever let Ed go?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=GoddessForever After: a dark comedy|author=Laura PowellDavid Jester
|rating=4
|genre=TeensHorror|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain Michael Holland is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry a cocky and brash young man who dies and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in gets made the Cult offer of Artemishis lifetime; immortality. In this BritainWe follow Michael, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and are followed by millions - Naff (a stoner in the cult sits side by side records department) as they grapple with Christianity as their long lives and finding a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite clean surface to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retiressit on in their flat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=LibriomancerThe Girl at the Window|author=Jim C HinesRowan Coleman|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsTrudy Heaton is going home, inner journeys to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and despairto a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellHome, her refuge, Ponden Hall, but they where she can also be fun, entertaining heal herself and laser pistolstry to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is a great exampledead. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has Where better than the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one dayhouse full of light and shadow, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to younurtured her throughout her childhood? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Half Bad|author=Sally Green|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFrontpage|summaryisbn=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genre, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. So, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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>}} {{newreview1471407764|title=The Woman in Black: Angel of DeathTwisted Tree|author=Martyn WaitesRachel Burge|rating=4.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=ItMartha's here at last – the novel of the script of the sequel to the film of the book – that was always better as a stage-playworld has changed. I'll maintain as long as you like that the play is the best way to witness [[The Woman Blind in Black by Susan Hill]]one eye after falling from a tree, purely for the added extra of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story she wakes with you when you leavea disturbing gift. Making sequels to the filmShe can read people through their clothes, what with its departures secrets tumble from the sourceweave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, certainly donand knowledge she doesn't marry up with that – instead of the ghost going away into the audience itunderstand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's instead as if the new characters are compelled cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, and stumbles into her domain – but either way, the dread inevitability world of all the best ghost stories are on these pagesmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesBellewether |author=Cecily Gayford (editor)Susanna Kearsley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.
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{{newreview
|title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
|author=Holly Black
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire 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 the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?
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{{newreview
|title=Antigoddess
|author=Kendare Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Athena Flitting between the present day and her brother Hermes are 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 lot less godlike than they used museum due to bethe legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. In factIt is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, they are dying. Athena who is being slowly suffocated intrigued by feathers growing inside her the ghost who haunts the house and Hermestheir story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's body is eating itself. Literally. They are on sister, Lydia, and a road trip French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to find out exactly what it live there. The perspective of the book is killing the gods continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and to save themselves if they canJean-Philippe. No matter The latter two tell the cost truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to themselves or others. Gods don't count costsunravel it herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Memory: She's Dying to RememberFrontpage|authorisbn=Christoph Marzi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jude can see the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away a lot. Instead, he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the living. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1473203287|title=Hold Your BreathSummerland |author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=TideHannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After her parents' deaths at the hands discovery of the demons they fought againstafterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards 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 end heart of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean HannaySummerland. Unable to trust Sean following his liesWhen Rachel White, Sarah turns to Nicholasan ambitious SIS agent, new on becomes suspicious about the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she find out is willing to risk to uncover the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Harrington1472235878|title=PerceptionA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Karen Maitland|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=After solving Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a murder over story that never shies away from the summerdarker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of attention at schoolthe old faith. Mostly As fear rises, it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is sending her increasingly creepy messagestainted, its healing waters run red with blood and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followedstrangers are blowing in on a wind of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Burns|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this series, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yelena Black|title=Dance of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa is just one of many new students at the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're all trying to become the best dancer, she has her own reasons for being there. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the school, and she's determined to find out what happened to Margaret. Can she find out? And will the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah White1472234782|title=Deceit|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thinking the immortal Doctor defeated, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, and Claire quite likes her, despite a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, on the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the past, an evil magician ancestor and an ancient prophecy, seem like old news. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Story Keeper|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Finale (Hush Hush) Anna Mazzola|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=We left Patch Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead escapes from the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each yearstraightjacket of her home. If she doesn'tWhere every action, every thought, both she ''and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader every yearning is controlled by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend is a fallen angelfather, so who only once again their relationship has in his life threw caution to go undergroundthe wind and married way beneath him for love. Nora agrees Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to a fake relationship with Danteupholding what is right, what is proper, the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam bastion of doing what is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for warexpected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Dyson0751571229|title=When The Haunted BookCurtain Falls|author=Carrie Hope Fletcher|rating=35
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Typically atypical noises faced by someone alone A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in an empty house… a rock group reuniting at their old studios from the first page and finding there are more haunting traces of their passage than just their unremembered recordings… takes you on a nightmare for roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a round-dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the-world solo yachtsman when he gains a passenger… These could possibly count as entrants in any compendium course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost stories. But what The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of their authorher very own show, tasked to transfer reportage into readable nonmeet with the love of her life and re-fiction? Should he not know better about dabbling enact her death. A tragic accident with the occult, 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 to just roots buried deep within the pages whole array of the book he is currently writinghuman nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, but has made itself known in volumes past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857862421</amazonuk>all laid bare on centre stage.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillAaronovitvch_Furthest|title=Dolly|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=An empty house in the remote fenlands of England, with a man returning to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s name, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFurthest Station|author=Libba Bray|title=The DivinersBen Aaronovitch
|rating=4
|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 Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a strange power caused day's (or a scandal in society - this is what shenight's always dreamed of) work for The Folly team, even if the team only has two official members and the filing system dates back 2 centuries. But dreams can become nightmaresHe may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but Constable Grant is a nicely wry and when Evie, her uncle Will recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and their friends find themselves trying he is inclined to stop trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the hope of a serial killer, she'll have to use all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alivefree meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tera Lynn ChildsMoore_Strange|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connection, and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStrange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)|author=Pamela Hartshorne|title=Time's EchoSyd Moore
|rating=5
|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>
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{{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>}}