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Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a very recent corpse shows up in a haunted abandoned nightclub, alongside the bones of the famous missing singer, Bobbie Bray, everyone is spooked: especially the new owner. Did Bobbie's ghost finally get her revenge, or is there a more earthly explanation?
2) Chasing fire
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Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was 18. But now she's mourning the death of her friend and jump partner, Jim - and haunted by the fact that she might have been able to save him.
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Daisy Sullivan's father was one of London's most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death she vows to live a respectable life. That is until the day her mum, who abandoned her when she was young and who she barely remembers, barges back into her life. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton
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Odd Thomas has seen danger and he has seen death. He lives between two worlds, communicating with the lingering dead. He stands between us and our darkest fears, never failing the tests that confront him, whatever the cost. He finds refuge in a crumbling mansion, a place of terrible secrets, haunted by lingering spirits. Originally published: New Y
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Can you hold on to your humanity when you're a monster? How do you face the present if you're haunted by the past? Where can you turn when you're trapped in a living nightmare? For B Smith, death is not the end! Originally published: London: Simon and Schuster
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Series
Confessions volume 2
Publisher
Young Arrow
Pub. Date
2014
Description
There's no relief for the Angel family after sixteen-year-old Tandy helps uncover the truth about her parents' untimely deaths. As Tandy's famous (now infamous) brother Matthew stands trial for the murder of his girlfriend, a new killer lurks on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Tandy launches her own investigation, but she's haunted by another mystery:
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Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2012
Description
1915, and the ghosts of the dead haunt a wealthy Boston family. Sibyl Allston is devastated by the recent deaths of her mother and sister aboard the Titanic. Hoping to heal her wounded heart, she seeks solace in the parlour of a medium who promises to contact her lost loved ones.
8) Night music
Author
Series
Nocturnes volume 2
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A decade after 'Nocturnes' first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection
9) Sunset Park
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Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Description
28-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. He returns to New York where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father.
10) Timesmith
Author
Series
The Timesmith chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2014
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13-year-old Jack Morrow is haunted by the past. For Jack is a Timesmith, someone with the ability to travel through sorrowlines, the channels that connect every gravestone with the date of the person's death. Desperate to help his family, Jack finds himself in a secret world deep under the streets of 1940's London. Hunted by the undead knights of t
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The Greyladies trilogy volume 1
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1900. The death of her father forces Harriet out of her home to escape the advances of her stepbrother, the rule of her stepmother, and into service at Dalton House. Over time Harriet develops a friendship with the Dalton's crippled son Joseph but her life is changed completely when she inherits Greyladies, a haunted house. Originally published: 20
12) Chasing the dead
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David Raker volume 1
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It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. A year after the death of her son Alex, Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him. Reluctant at first, but haunted by a loss of his own, Raker eventually agrees.
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Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the concept of death, just wants her Daddy to come home for Christmas. Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the concept of...
14) Case histories
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Jackson Brodie volume 1
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Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity,...
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2017
Description
An Orphan in the Snow is the perfect heartwarming saga for Christmas. LIVERPOOL, 1941 Haunted by the death of her sister, June Lavender takes a job at a Dr Barnardo?s orphanage. June couldn?t save Clara from their father?s violence, but perhaps she can help children whose lives have been torn apart by war. A WORLD AT WAR When June bumps into Flight Lieutenant Murray Andrews on the bombed streets of Liverpool, the attraction is instant. But how can...
16) The fire child
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall, she gains wealth, love, and an affectionate stepson, Jamie.But then Jamie?s behaviour changes, and Rachel?s perfect life begins to unravel. He makes disturbing predictions, claiming to be haunted by the spectre of his late mother - David?s previous wife. Is this Jamie?s way of punishing Rachel,...
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Michael Ondaatje lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of World War II. Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room....
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Series
A D.C.I. Daley volume 4
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2016
Description
It?s December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. Shannon International is one of the world?s biggest private companies, with tendrils reaching around the globe in computing, banking and mineral resourcing, and it has brought untold wealth and privilege to the family. However, a century ago Archibald Shannon stole the land upon which he built their home - and his descendants have...
19) Hannibal rising
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Series
Hannibal Lecter volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Description
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS IN ALL OF LITERATURE. AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL IS REVEALED. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful...
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Adam Craig is 14 when he meets Brid near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands - he is fascinated by her. They become friends, and, in time, passionate lovers. She leads him, unsuspecting, into the sixth century, where she has mastered the ancient mysteries and dangerous magic of the Druids. In her obsession with Adam, Brid is seen as a traitor by her people, only escaping death by following Adam to Edinburgh when he leaves home...
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