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The Ghost of Gosswater

The Ghost of Gosswater
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be...

The Ghost of Villa Winter

The Ghost of Villa Winter
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body...

The Ghost Orchid

The Ghost Orchid
  • Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman
  • Location(s): Bel Air, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an upscale Bel Air property, two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy heir to a business empire, and the woman is his even wealthier married neighbour. An illicit affair is the...

The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Gran Canaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 17th Century

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert...

The Ghost Tree

The Ghost Tree
  • Author(s): Sara Bain
  • Location(s): Dumfries and Galloway
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Five years after the death of his wife, MacAoidh Armstrong moves into a smallholding in southern Scotland with the intention of living a self-sufficient existence. Although he’s heard the steading has a reputation for being haunted, the pragmatic Highlander...

The Ghostly Father

The Ghostly Father
  • Author(s): Sue Barnard
  • Location(s): Venice, Verona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1400s to early 1500s, with a present-day framework

The discovery of an ancient Italian manuscript gives rise to a fascinating question: What if the story of Romeo & Juliet really did happen in 15th-century Italy – and what if it didn’t happen quite the way we think...

The Ghosts of Altona

The Ghosts of Altona
  • Author(s): Craig Russell
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Head of Hamburg’s Murder Commission, Jan Fabel is used to the dead, but when a routine enquiry spirals out of control he finds himself on much closer terms with death – his own. As he struggles to process this...

The Ghosts of China

The Ghosts of China
  • Author(s): G I Lewis
  • Location(s): Merthyr Tydfil
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2013 looking back to mid 19th Century

Merthyr Tydfil in 1844 is a frontier town on the cutting edge of the industrial revolution where wealth and crime walk hand in hand. Introduced just a few years earlier, the Glamorgan Constabulary fight to take control of this...

The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle

The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle
  • Author(s): Michael Young
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1980s onwards

Different from the Arab countries of the Middle East, Lebanon is a pluralistic society – 18 religious sects, a large minority of Christians. It is often seen as a ‘message’ to the possibility of Arab democratization, but it has...

The Ghosts Of Rome

The Ghosts Of Rome
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Rome Escape Line #2 February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to...

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