Graham Masterton
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
'God, it's good' STEPHEN KINGOn a windswept moor, an old house guards its secrets... The new standalone horror novel from 'a true master of horror.' All Hallows Hall is a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak and misty Dartmoor. It is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the former Governer of Dartmoor Prison did just that. Now he's dead, and his children – long estranged – are set to inherit his estate.But when the dead man's...
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is a sunny Saturday in county Cork, and an Irish wedding is in full swing. Drunk uncles are toasting the bride. The Ceilidh band have played for hours. No one could predict that the cutting of the cake would bring this wedding to a horrifying end. The severed head of Micky Crounan, local baker, is grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier of his own cake. Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, is baffled - until another local businessman goes missing...
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Katie Maguire never thought Ireland's nuns would need her protection...In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing--until another sister from the same convent is found floating in the Glashaboy river. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want to kill them? But then a child's skull is unearthed in the garden of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains in her stomach. The chief surgeon delivers a living child with the face of an angel and the body of a tentacled monster. The doctors are unanimous that the baby must die. ... Engineer Gemma is plunged into darkness in a tunnel beneath London. Before she escapes, a strange green light illuminates a cluster of ghostly figures. Gemma is certain they were children. ... DC Jerry Pardoe and DS...
Author
Series
A Beatrice Scarlet thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
London, 1750: Beatrice Scarlet is the apothecary's daughter. She can mix medicines and herbs to save the lives of her neighbours - but, try as she might, she can't save the lives of her parents. An orphan at just sixteen, Beatrice marries a preacher and emigrates to America. New Hampshire, 1756: In the farming community where Beatrice now lives, six pigs are found viciously slaughtered; slices of looking-glass embedded in their mouths. According to...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dartmoor, with its mists, bleak winter weather and overwhelming sense of isolation, is the perfect place to build a prison. It's not a place many would choose to live--yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When Herbert Russell retired, he bought All Hallow's Hall--a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the moor, and lived there all his life. Now he's dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate. But when the dead man's...
7) The coven
Author
Series
Beatrice Scarlet thriller volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
They say the girls were witches. But Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, is sure they were innocent victims ... London, 1758: Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, has found a position at St Mary Magdalene's Refuge for fallen women. She enjoys the work and soon forms a close bond with her charges. The refuge is supported by a wealthy tobacco merchant, who regularly offers the girls steady work to aid their rehabilitation. But when...
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It started with the judge. He was about to sentence five of Cork's most notorious criminals. But his body has just turned up, beaten and broken, on an isolated road in his burned-out car. Now four members of a rival gang have been shot, and in retaliation three civilians have been blown up. To Katie's horror, Cork is becoming a gang battleground like Dublin. Can Katie save the city? Can she save herself?"--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire blazes in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars, die in the flames. Their young lives cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Maguire sees murder. This is not the first fire to sweep through Cork. And in one previous case, the victims were dead before the fire was started. As Katie Maguire investigates the strange, obsessive world of competitive...
10) Drought
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A chilling supernatural tale-with an environmental twist-from a master of modern horror. What would happen if the water ran out? Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don't know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most. But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn't...
11) Festival of fear
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the mirror dug up in secret and better off buried. . . Thrill at a pair of lovers, whose promise to each other lead them down a disturbing path. Observe the haunted house. . . Come closer, dear reader - the hour of the festival is...
12) Touchy and feely
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The first in the new Sissy Sawyer series When Fidelio Valdes, a disaffected young Puerto Rican, and Robert Touche, a drunk and aggressive businessman who has lost his job and his wife, meet, they begin a spree of random shootings. The Connecticut Police are baffled until widowed fortune-teller Sissy Sawyer contacts them to say that her cards are predicting the murders and giving her clues to the identity of the killers . . .
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sissy Sawyer, an unredeemed hippy, has an uncanny ability to read the future – and the lives of those she holds dear may soon depend on it . . .- One afternoon, shadows started to flicker along the corridors of The Red Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and both guests and staff heard persistent grinding noises that gave them "the freesons" – or goosebumps. Months later, Sissy Sawyer's step-nephew Billy drops by with his new girlfriend, T-Yon. Sissy...
14) Forest ghost
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A bone-chilling tale of terror and suspense… Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. Drawn into investigating the suicides, Jack discovers a connection with his own grandfather, who killed himself in the Kampinos Forest in Poland when he was...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
St Philomena's military hospital has been abandoned for over three years. Now Lilian Chesterfield, who works for one of the most successful building companies in England, is in charge of developing it into a luxury housing complex. But as soon as she and her colleagues start work in the Jacobean-style mansion, their dream turns into a nightmare. They hear screaming from wards full of empty beds. They hear doors slamming and find cutlery scattered...
16) Ghost virus
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young woman pours acid over her own body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police are at a loss. Why are such violent crimes being committed by the most unlikely of people? Ordinary Londoners are being infected with an insatiable lust to murder . All of the killers were wearing second-hand clothes. Could these garments be possessed by a supernatural force?...
17) Living death
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
DS Katie Maguire is at a loss. Last year, she and her team destroyed the biggest drug trafficker in Cork. So how is the city's drug trade at an all time high? Katie can't focus on this until she's solved a more pressing case: a spate of violent attacks in Cork which leave victims severely disabled and reliant on medical care abroad. But as she investigates, she realizes that the two cases might be connected. Someone is using brain-damaged victims...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe are called to an abandoned London factory where they find a pile of scorched human heads. Soon they are on the trail of a cult that worships a Neolithic god who demands human sacrifices. As Londoners are abducted off the streets to be mutilated and die horrifically, can Patel and Pardoe stop the cult or will they become victims themselves?
19) Begging to die
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young girl is found wandering the city alone. Who is she? Someone is killing beggars on the streets of Cork. But why? DCI Katie Maguire, Ireland's most fearless detective, must find out. But while she fights for justice for the homeless, her fiance Conor has his own crusade: against illegal puppy farming. A hugely lucrative black market run by terrifying gangs, it is a huge scandal in Ireland. Soon their freedom, their marriage, and even their lives...
Author
Series
Katie Maguire novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Kieran O'Regan was responsible for hunting down killers. Now he's become one of the dead: his decapitated body has been found in a graveyard, a tin whistle stuffed into his throat. O'Regan was due to give evidence at a trial for police corruption. His gruesome murder sends a clear message to whistleblowers: only silence is safe. DCI Katie Maguire is determined to uncover the truth. But corruption in the Garda stretches back decades. As more...
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