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Shadows of Cathedral Lane
Series: Detective Sandford Mysteries
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Moments after being dumped by the woman of her dreams, a dead man accosts Nikki begging her to solve his case.
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Detective Sergeant Nikki Sandford is having the worst night of her life. Five minutes after the woman of her dreams dumped her in a conversation that will have her questioning her sexuality all over again, a man with a serious injury accosts her. One problem: he is already dead. The knife wound in his abdomen and the fact that nobody except Nikki can see him makes that apparent. He wants Nikki to help solve the mystery of his death so he can move on to the afterlife. Nikki is only too happy to oblige if only so that heβll stop complaining about being stuck in the modern world and leave her to eat the sticky toffee pudding she was going to serve to her date. But something is trying to stop that from happening.
Spooky Salmonweird: Tales from the Village
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 0
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Blurb: Thirteen spinetingling spinoff short stories set in the Salmonweird universe
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The ghosts of Salmonweir in Cornwall have given the village's only living resident - the retired detective Karl Blackman - the night off. In this collection of short stories, thirteen of the supporting characters recount weird and spooky goings on from the times when they were alive. What did Kensa have to do to prove herself a worthy queen? Why does Harry fear the ship known as The Storm Harpy? Did The King's head have a ghost resident before Morwenna and Babajide came back as ghosts? From the Iron Age to World War II, including takes from both the American Civil War and interregnal England, these thirteen stories pay homage to some of the greatest ghost stories of all time. Ghost stories for Halloween, for Christmas, and all the year round. The world in which the ghosts of Salmonweird live has a darker, scarier side.
Salmonweird: A Cornish Crime Comedy Caper
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 1
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Blurb: Karl's retirement to Cornwall was quiet and idyllic until the ghosts turned up... and one of them a murderer.
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Is it possible to kill a person who is already dead and has been for hundreds of years? Karl hoped his retirement to coastal Cornwall from Cambridge would be idyllic and quiet. His new home, the picturesque village of Salmonweir overlooking the Cornish south coast between Treen and Lamorna Cove away from the big tourist destinations was seemingly perfect in that respect. Salmonweir, in fact, had nothing to set it apart from any other sleepy Cornish village unaffected by mass tourism. And that was the way Karl preferred it. But Karl's wife Valarie didn't prefer it. What really tipped her over the edge and convinced her to return to Cambridge was the 500 ghosts who appeared from nowhere one Sunday morning in spring. Among them were Iron Age Warrior Queen on the lookout for Romans, a pirate crew on the lookout for rum, an Elizabethan poet on the lookout for a publisher, a Civil War puritan on the lookout for Catholic royalists, and a medieval monk on the lookout for plague. Could it have got any weirder? Ah yes, the "murders", and Karl's un-retirement.
Phobetor's Children
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Blurb: Six gladiators on a secret mission for Emperor Vespasian will find their worst fears are already with them
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It is the AD70s. The tumult of The Year of the Four Emperors is over. Under Vespasian, Rome finally has stability and peace, an emperor with the respect of all classes. Yet beyond the borders of the empire, something dark and unknown stirs. A fort deep in a Germanian forest failed to report to the border town of Mogontiacum. A contact from a friendly tribe reported catastrophic damage to buildings and Roman war machines. The legionaries are gone; what few Romans remain are mutilated dead. Unsure of the size and nature of the threat, the new emperor realises he must act fast and decisively. Rome cannot spare a legion but it can spare six of the empire's most famous retired gladiators. With the promise of riches and prestige, it is down to those six: five men and one woman, to cross the border, travel to the forest, and find out what happened. But the gladiators will find that the greatest horrors are what each of them already carries within their hearts and their minds. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, psychosis, suicide, psychological abuse, sexual humiliation.