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Series
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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Description
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.
3) Blind date
Author
Publisher
Chivers Audio Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
8 9hrs, 23mins
Description
Emma Davey, who loved gemstones & life, was adored by everyone. But her life ends abruptly when someone kicks her to death. Elisabeth, her sister, is haunted by Emma's death & her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Description
One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyler is called to a mortuary in Suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child-killer. But in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killer's presence begins to assert itself... A vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, Death of a Murderer is a dark and gripping meditation on the fears and temptations that haunt us all.
Author
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
Author
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
7) 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
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs?s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs?s vision and keep the company moving forward. Steve Jobs's death raised one of the most pressing questions in the tech and business worlds: Could Apple stay great without its iconic leader? Many inside the company were...
Author
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:
11) Sunset Park
Author
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.
12) Timesmith
Author
Series
The Timesmith chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
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
13) Chasing the dead
Author
Series
David Raker volume 1
Description
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.
Author
Series
The Greyladies trilogy volume 1
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Description
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
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2017
Description
You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay?s grandad would fail spectacularly -- he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his granddad, he?s on the case of a dead body that vanished from the...
16) And finally
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying. Maxine is just shy of her 40th birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to South...
19) Yellow Room
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Secrets are like scars... Haunted by a tragic childhood accident, Chala?s whole life has been moulded by guilt and secrets. After the death of the stepfather she adored, Chala is thrown into turmoil once again. Volunteering in Kenya seems to offer an escape, and a way of re-evaluating her adult relationships, although violence and hardship simmer alongside its richness and beauty. The secrets of the Yellow Room are still with her and she can?t run...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Ghostly footsteps in the night, the splash of oars on the river, and a rip in the fabric of time ? In 1998 Kate O'Hara rents an old cottage on the banks of a river in Tasmania. She wants peace and quiet, to come to terms with her husband's death and the end of her unhappy marriage. But her cottage is haunted by the ghost of Devlin, a boatman from convict days. Captivated by Devlin's story, and his mysterious disappearance, Kate falls deeper under...
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