Fast hard & knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue tradecraft & suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child. I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash. But I only have 48 hours & there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. He'll have to find me first. They don't call me the Ghostman for nothing... ...

Murder & ghosts go h&-in-hand & vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim & evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring visions psychometry ghosts haunted prisons possessions & spiritualist detectives this book is a fascinating look at criminology & ghost hunting. Paranormal historian Paul Adams has opened the case files of both the criminologist & the ghost hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts & Gallows. ...

James Van Praagh knew he was different from a young age. Not only could he see ghosts but he could talk to them & interact with them. He realised that whereas some ghosts can be full of malice others actively want to help the living. In this extraordinary book he tells his incredible ghost stories & reveals the lessons he learned from his amazing encounters with the spirit world. He explains what it is really like to see ghosts how to recognise which sort of energies surround a person or place ways to protect ourselves from negative presences & techniques for becoming closer to those spirits who truly want to guide us. Uncovering the truth about the Other Side Ghosts Among Us also shows us how to develop our psychic powers & how we can all transform our fears of the paranormal into a source of inner strength & support. ...

Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family & their faithful guardian Edgar the raven & discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherh&. The rumblings & wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored as one by one members of the castle are being found frozen scared to death. With mother Minty obsessing over her latest fad
- sewing
- & father Valevine busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure its up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice & Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual things dont go quite as planned... Its just as well Edgar is there to save the day! Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black & white line illustrations from new talent Pete Williamson. Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

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Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family & their faithful guardian Edgar the raven & discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherh&. The rumblings & wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored as one by one members of the castle are being found frozen 'scared to death'. With mother Minty obsessing over her latest fad
- sewing
- & father Valevine busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure it's up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice & Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual things don't go quite as planned... It's just as well Edgar is there to save the day! Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black & white line illustrations from new talent Pete Williamson. Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

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The history of Neath & the surrounding area dates back to Roman times so it is little wonder that this small Welsh town is teaming with all manner of ghosts from the long dead monks that still wander among the ruins of Neath Abbey to the voices of ghostly miners to be found deep in the mountains. In this chilling new book local paranormal expert Robert King explores graveyards visits grand old houses & drinks in some of Neaths eeriest pubs to reveal a hidden past with tales of cruelty & violence of forbidden love & broken hearts of charity & compassion. A policeman encounters a terrifying spectre in a Neath churchyard; a young mother receives unexpected help from beyond the grave; a ghostly organ plays on in Gwynn Hall & a shadowy black cat wanders the Margam Forest... With his detailed local knowledge King presents a new take on traditional Welsh myths & legends alongside gripping true stories & first-person accounts from the people of Neath from the heart-warming to the hair-raising! ...

Investigator David Ash is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors & terrorized by ghosts from the ancient village's long history. ...

Saker & Sinter have split up. Sinter is nursing in the shanties of Ho Chi Minh city. Saker is with the peace-loving Penan helping them protect the orang utans & save their own forest homes as unscrupulous loggers wreak destruction. But they are being watched. & hunted. The Prophet has not forgiven their betrayal. Escaping the Clan takes Saker & Sinter on a deadly dangerous journey through Vietnam over the South China Sea back to Borneo. Deep in the jungle they're reunited on their most daredevil & audacious mission yet to save the endangered orang utans before they become ghosts of the forest. Beware the wooden bullet. ...

Regarded by many as the most haunted city in the world; York has over 500 individual spirits & is therefore the perfect destination for five paranormal investigators from Newcastle gathering evidence to answer a question as old as time: Do ghosts actually exist? Allow Rob Kirkup to be your guide on an epic ghost hunting adventure; a year-long quest which will see ten of Yorks most active venues investigated. Nothing could prepare the team for what they would encounter. From a very unwelcoming phantom at one of the citys premier tourist attractions who literally pushes the team out of its lair & an angry toilet-dwelling ghost at one of the countrys top museums to the tragic shade of a young girl who speaks to our team at the former site of Yorks gallows where many hundreds were executed including the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin. Its guaranteed to be one hell of an adventure so utterly terrifying in fact that not all of the team will stay the distance. Illustrated with over 60 photographs this book is the ultimate ghostly guide to the scariest city on earth. ...

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree
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- unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. Add to this
- a Mongolian gangster a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces a despondent zookeeper a nuclear scientist a ghostwriter a ghost & a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing. All of them have tales to tell & all must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause & effect.


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