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The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne, two, the ghosts are coming for you… Three, four, better salt your door… Five, six, death and hatred mix… Seven, eight, help will come too late… Nine, ten, never reap again…Seventeen year old, Mattie Hathaway, has enough on her plate without having to deal with the latest teenage ghost drama. The ghosts of eight murdered girls are out for her blood. They blame Mattie for their deaths... -
![Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell]()
Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLove can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary... -
![Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell]()
Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in... -
![Armageddon Outta Here by Derek Landy]()
Armageddon Outta Here by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition - 22 stories in all!ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERYEnter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the killers, the misfits, the oddballs and the weirdos.Enter the world of Skulduggery Pleasant... -
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![Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles]()
Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood by Ann Charles
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeanwhile, Back in Deadwood … the mystery and mayhem continue. Between the butchered body parts, creepy killers, dogged detectives, ghoulish ghosts, and ever-present TV cameras, Violet Parker’s purple boots are itching to skedaddle.But there is no escaping another murder investigation or her new deadly reputation. Not even if both risk the lives of those she loves most... -
![Double or Nothing by Craig Schaefer]()
Double or Nothing by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDaniel Faust – sorcerer, thief, and newly-minted Las Vegas crime boss – has debts to pay. One of those debts has just come due, an IOU to be paid in the form of a high-risk heist, and it’s a job he can’t refuse. The mark? Daniel’s arch-nemesis, a man with a Cheshire smile and the powers of a living god... -
![City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes]()
City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA malevolent force lurks beneath the streets of Scotland...Jess and Hannah Ballard's determination to protect the Gateways brings them to Edinburgh's Old Town, where a strange phenomenon threatens to disturb the delicate balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Spirits who wish to cross over are vanishing, and it is up to the Ballard sisters to discover why... -
![San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather]()
San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real... -
![Psychopomp by Angela Roquet]()
Psychopomp by Angela Roquet
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn war, everyone loses...Reaper Lana Harvey is finding out the hard way. When Jenni Fang recruits her for a special mission, the biggest victory over the rebels is followed by a crushing and immediate reprisal. The rebels have a new general working in the shadows of Limbo City, luring gods, reapers, demons, and souls to the dark side... -
![The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer]()
The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, staffed by brutal guards and surrounded by desolate wasteland. Inside the walls, gangs and predators are constant threats; outside the walls, there's nothing but a sniper's bullet or a slow death in the desert heat... -
![The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer]()
The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOut of prison and back on the streets, Daniel Faust returns home to a city on fire. The Chicago mob is making their play for control of Las Vegas, with an army of gunmen and a lethal shapeshifter on their side, while Daniel's friend Jennifer marshals the forces of the Vegas underworld... -
![A Time for Witches by Craig Schaefer]()
A Time for Witches by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Ghosts of Gotham, Craig Schaefer unveiled a modern world haunted by Greek mythology and magic. That was only the beginning.Once upon a time, Lionel Page didn’t believe in magic.That was before his odyssey to New York City, and the quest for a lost manuscript that ended in mysteries, murder, and the buried secrets of his own past. He used to be a professional skeptic... -
![Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant]()
Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhy sell your soul when you can rent it? Mark Vedis is an average cop. Average for a mage in the Paranormal Police Department (PPD), anyway. After years of doing the jobs nobody else wanted, his career, and life, seemed to be on hold... -
![A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter]()
A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou know what doesn’t go down well with morning coffee? A body in a canal. When a neighbor finds a grim discovery in the waterways of Venice Beach, Linx Maxwell gets an unexpected visitor in the form of a new ghost. The only problem? Her new ghost doesn’t see eye to eye with her old one. Detective Frank Bogle doesn’t know what to make of the young victim... -
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![This Broken World by Eric R. Asher]()
This Broken World by Eric R. Asher
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVesik, Book 4 An ocean of darkness lives in the journal of Philip Pinkerton. Ancient things with no place in our world are rising from the Abyss. Ezekiel, the arrogant, mad god has called us into battle. Does he think we can't touch him, or does he know we can't? I wish I knew... -
![Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon]()
Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s a secret international organization operating in cities on every continent. It polices relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, enforcing immigration laws, the transfers of magical artifacts, and crimes against humanity.The agents who work for the NATO Irregular Affairs Division can’t tell anyone what they do, or how hard they work to keep us safe... -
![Nightmare by Stephen Leather]()
Nightmare by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help... -
![For the Birds by Angela Roquet]()
For the Birds by Angela Roquet
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLana Harvey isn't just any reaper. She's the new captain of the Posy Unit, a specialty group dedicated to harvesting mass quantities of souls from natural disaster sites, battlefields, and the like. The new title didn't come without a price though. Lana made some promises along the way, and now it's time to follow through.. -
![The Awakening by Amanda Stevens]()
The Awakening by Amanda Stevens
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsShush…lest she awaken… My name is Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without a trace and now her ghost has awakened, demanding that I find out the truth about her death. Only I know that she was murdered... -
![The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey]()
The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands... -
![Heaven's Door by John G. Hartness]()
Heaven's Door by John G. Hartness
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAWARD-WINNING DARK FANTASY TO READ WITH THE LIGHTS ON He's finally found something to care about after a century of searching, but will he lose it all at the hands of his most dangerous foe yet? Seven years ago, Quincy Harker vanquished the demon Orobas and saved the city of Charlotte, NC from his evil plans. Or so he thought... -
![A Parliament of Bodies by Marshall Ryan Maresca]()
A Parliament of Bodies by Marshall Ryan Maresca
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe city of Maradaine is vexed by the Gearbox Murders: a series of gruesome deaths orchestrated by a twisted mechanical genius. With no motive and no pattern, Inspectors Satrine Rainey and Minox Welling—the retired spy and untrained mage—are at a loss to find a meaningful lead in the case... -
![The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre]()
The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them... -
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Five Down by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Downside Ghosts series has been called "gripping and brilliant," "a must-read," and "one of the best paranormal fantasy series available." Now all four previously published short stories set in this world are collected in one place, plus one new, never-before-seen novella... -
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![The Women in the walls by Tim McGregor]()
The Women in the walls by Tim McGregor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the detective she's fallen for needs help, a reluctant psychic must put aside her feelings to help him unravel a horrific crime. HAMILTON - Trying to maintain a normal life, psychic Billie Culpepper struggles to block out the dead souls that haunt her every move but her attempts to suppress her ability only serve to isolate her even more... -
![Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar]()
Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars.Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up... -
![A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter]()
A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLiving. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade... -
![Demons LLC by Glenn Bullion]()
Demons LLC by Glenn Bullion
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you do if you could talk to ghosts?Alex was born with demonic abilities unheard of, even in the supernatural world. He can talk to ghosts, walk through walls, he can even fly. His powers have allowed him to help others, living and dead.Now Alex is at a crossroads in his life. Newly married, he no longer wishes to work at his dead-end job forever... -
![Lastnight by Stephen Leather]()
Lastnight by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles... -
![Vampire Games by J.R. Rain]()
Vampire Games by J.R. Rain
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSix years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire... -
![Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey]()
Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFelix Castor is a freelance exorcist, so dealing with the dead is his stock in trade. Between his private clients and some consulting for the Met, he thinks he's seen it all. But a late-night call out to a South London housing estate proves that he still has a few surprises left. After all, it's not every day you see your own name painted in blood at a a crime scene.But that's only the beginning... -
![Home by Stacia Kane]()
Home by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAs a Debunker, Chess Putnam is used to investigating reports of suspected hauntings and sending ghosts back to the City of Eternity beneath the surface of the earth. What she isn't used to is having suburban housewives refusing to acknowledge the presence of ghosts in their homes. There are lots of reasons why someone might harbor a spirit, and none of them are good... -
![Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke]()
Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair... -
![Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell]()
Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe highly anticipated sequel to the Kindle bestseller A Soul to StealThe past is always at your heels…Quinn O’Brion and Kate Tassel, two community journalists, tapped into a dark power last Halloween in order to stop a vicious serial killer. But they are still grappling with their new abilities—and wondering if what they unleashed may soon consume them... -
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![Heaven Sent by John G. Hartness]()
Heaven Sent by John G. Hartness
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBOOK 5 in the Award-Winning Dark Fantasy Series takes us back to where it all began. He's the immortal magic-wielding child of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray from the classic novel Dracula. But to him it's not a story, it's family history. Quincy Harker is what you'd get if Constantine were renewed by HBO and taken to the darkest of dark sides... -
![Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake]()
Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this exciting novel in the Veiled Magic series, Witch and police officer Donata Santori travels to Maine to help solve a deadly mystery, where her magical abilities are tested like never before... -
![Long Witch Night by Sami Valentine]()
Long Witch Night by Sami Valentine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLights, Camera, Poltergeist. A Hollywood dream becomes a nightmare. Called to a movie set, Red investigates a haunting that threatens to turn a Christmas flick into a slasher film. Allied with a soulmancer, she has to save the Hollywood A-Listers from a phantom that wants souls instead of autographs. Busting ghosts is easier than laying her own personal demons to rest... -
![Legacy Witches by Cass Kay]()
Legacy Witches by Cass Kay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsComing from a long line of murderous witches hasn’t exactly been sunshine and rainbows for Vianna Roots. When she inherits the family’s haunted house after her mother dies, she decides flipping the rundown dump is her smartest move—but the ghosts that haunt her have a different plan... -
![Banished by C.J. Archer]()
Banished by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn infestation of evil ghosts is too much for spirit medium Cara to handle alone. She summons Quin, and together they attempt to discover where the ghosts came from, and why they refuse to leave this realm. To protect the residents, Cara and Quin must work closely together, leading to old feelings resurfacing between them... -
![Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine]()
Shadow Burns by S.M. Reine
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen more than a dozen people die at a retirement home, the official story is carbon monoxide poisoning. Cèsar Hawke is convinced the reason is less mundane and more infernal. But that’s his job. As an agent working for the Office of Preternatural Affairs, he’s always looking for supernatural answers to deadly questions.Isobel Stonecrow agrees to help him find the truth... -
![Cold Streets by P.N. Elrod]()
Cold Streets by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVampire detective Jack Fleming's latest venture-the Lady Crymsyn nightclub-has become the favorite haunt for Chicago's elite. But amongst his patrons lurk a smarmy blackmailer and a dangerous up-and-coming mobster from New York-both unaware how deadly Jack can be when blood is spilled.. -
![Luminosity by Abigail Boyd]()
Luminosity by Abigail Boyd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJust when she thought her dreams couldn't get any weirder, Ariel Donovan begins having vivid nightmares of a dog that she must follow. It leads her to find an item from her past that she must use to aid her in figuring out the Thornhill Society...but she's not the only one looking for it... -
![Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell]()
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option... -
![Midnight by Stephen Leather]()
Midnight by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Nightingale is on the hunt for the sister he never knew he had. Just three days ago he did a deal with a devil to save his soul from burning in hell. Now he's determined to rescue the only family he has from the same fate... -
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![Vignette by Jim Butcher]()
Vignette by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA short story of the Dresden Files. Bob and Harry discuss the latter's Yellow Pages advert... -
![Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy]()
Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA jolt of Skulduggery Pleasant action for free.Midnight. Valkyrie Cain approaches an old, ramshackle church to make a delicate deal with a trio of ugly, hairy goblins. To her absolute non-surprise, the goblins have no intention of honouring that deal- but not to worry. Skulduggery Pleasant is standing by to deliver a surprise of their own.Things, however, don’t go exactly according to plan... -
![Truth Chain by Jonathan Moeller]()
Truth Chain by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNadia Moran's luck has run out at last. The High Queen's Inquisition is coming for her, led by the Lord Inquisitor himself. Desperate and trapped, Nadia has no choice but to cut a deal. Nadia is a master thief, and even the Lord Inquisitor needs things stolen. But the price of Nadia's freedom might destroy her utterly.. -
![Hex and the City by Simon R. Green]()
Hex and the City by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsLady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it's always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out... -
![The Sinner by Amanda Stevens]()
The Sinner by Amanda Stevens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsI am a living ghost, a wanderer in search of my purpose and place… I'm a cemetery restorer by trade, but my calling has evolved from that of ghost seer to death walker to detective of lost souls. I solve the riddles of the dead so the dead will leave me alone. I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come by…for the ghosts here and for me... -
![Heir of the Dog by Hailey Edwards]()
Heir of the Dog by Hailey Edwards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBlack Dog, Book 2 Faerie teeters on the brink of war, and the mortal realm swells with fae refugees desperate to escape the bloodshed. As a half-blooded fae, Marshal Thierry Thackeray has a stake in the outcome of both realms and isn’t afraid to knock a few heads together if it keeps the peace...
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