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Rivers of London volume 1
Language
English
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Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective...
Author
Series
Rivers of London volume 2
Language
English
Description
Body and soul. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body--a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural. Body and soul--they're...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
Author
Series
Spirited volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Olivia "Liv" Livingston loves her town Pleasant Place, but when her family moves to spooky Gloomsdale, she must learn to adjust to this ghost town where its residents are all from various decades and centuries, the hall monitors are bats, and some students have fangs.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1977: Beatrice Bird is a Ph.D. psychologist who has fled her home, her partner, and her practice in San Francisco for a remote and sparsely populated island. She sees as few people as she possibly can, not by choice but from necessity. Normally, Beatriceis plagued by ghosts, manifestations of the emotional baggage people carry with them, but on the island, she's free from their grief and sadness. Then she meets Anne Iredale, a thirty-two-year-old...
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Wilhelmina Price has a dubious reputation in the village of Thrush's Green. Ever since her mother's untimely death, she has been able to see a person's spirit leaving their body days or hours before they die. Wil has never been able to prevent these deaths, so her unusual skill has made her an outsider to most except her lifelong friend, Edison, the youngest son of Lord Summerfield. But when a maid at the Summerfield's estate dies in the same mysterious...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls a Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl and snatch the foolish whistlers in the dark. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits...
10) Dangerous allies
Author
Series
Forgotten five volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1999 Bloomington, Ind., 16-year-old Marshall Miller gets pulled over by a cop on the same day he gets his driver's license. While he's waiting for a ticket, he notices a frightened teenage girl in the backseat of the officer's car. Weeks later, Marshall spots the girl's face on a missing person poster: her name is Meredith Sullivan, and she disappeared on the same day that Marshall was pulled over. He reports his encounter to law enforcement and...
12) Sister lost
Author
Publisher
Brenda Lyne Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
As soon as Lexie and Ava move in to their new house on Washburn Avenue, the strange phenomena begin. Ava, normally a bright and happy girl, sleepwalks and throws violent tantrums. Lexie suffers from terrible nightmares, raging heartburn and debilitating headaches. And more than once she catches herself thinking of ways to kill the little brat. With the help of neighbor Ryan Laughlin, Lexie and Ava must race to uncover the house's tragic history and...
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness-a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched.
Author
Publisher
Corner Star Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Alexis Spencer is never too far away from another inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and ignore all her problems. Her boyfriend breaks it off, she's lost her job, her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her 18-year-old self who should have just tried harder and put their life on a better track. After feeling...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago a single block, deep in the suburbs, slipped into its own dimension, locked behind an inaccessible veil. Everyone was lost save for three girls who had returned to college the night before. Talitha, now 40, has never recovered from the trauma of that day, but when a researcher entices her back to try to make contact with her little sister, Talitha stops running from Brett, Grace, and their shared past in order to finally move forward...
16) No man's land
Author
Series
Rowan novel volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Junior CIA field agent Kelly Kaiser jumps at the chance to lead a risky mission to enter Mexico and gather refugees from under the nose of the notorious drug lord who murdered her fiancé. When the mission takes a revenge-fuelled twist, Kelly finds herself facing dismissal, but Agnes Pendalon, the CIA's chief 'spook' lady, has other ideas. Kelly must lead a new, top-secret team to hunt down everyone infected by a magical, mysterious rowan tree's supernatural...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
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