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The final book in the Merrily Watkins series.

Nestled deep in the Black Mountains, the village of Longtown is haunted by killings both ancient and modern. When young farmer and lottery winner Eddy Davies is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Herefordshire Police find themselves handling a complicated investigation.

Things aren't looking good for Davies's friend, the mysterious Autumn Wise, who is found nearby holding a shotgun. When Merrily Watkins - parish priest, single mum and renowned demon exorcist - comes to Autumn's aid, she soon discovers that Eddy's death is only the latest in a long string of tragedies to blight Longtown and the surrounding area. But help is at hand from Merrily's spiritual advisor, the Rev.

Huw Owen, who has an unorthodox solution in mind to end the area's centuries-long trail of misfortune...

It's 1961 and the Queen is planning her state visit to Italy aboard Britannia. But before she goes, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from the royal train. Did it really happen, and could the victim be a missing friend of Princess Margaret's new husband, Tony Armstrong Jones? The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation, little imagining that this time it will take them all the way to Venice in a tale of spies, lies and Cold War skulduggery.

Journalist Gordon Carver receives news that sends a chill down his spine.

Rushing home from the pub, he frantically calls his police contact, DCI James Walker to share his discovery, only to be struck from behind, plunging him into darkness. James misses the call, and by the time he arrives at the crime scene, Gordon is dead. With his name as the last entry in Gordon's phone, James is thrust into a chilling investigation.

What vital information was Gordon about to reveal, and who silenced him? With no witnesses and scant evidence, James races against time to uncover the truth. Can he uncover the mystery before the killer slips away?

When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra’s sister is found dead, and Áróra’s new financial investigation leads to the street where her sister was last seen, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything … The unmissable finale to the chilling, twisty, award-winning series… When the fate of Áróra’s missing sister, Isafold, is discovered, Áróra is relieved that she can halt a search that has taken over her life, even if the mystery remains unsolved. But when Isafold’s boyfriend – chief suspect in her disappearance – is found dead in the same place that Isafold’s body was found, Áróra begins to lose her grip on reality. To distract herself, she dives headfirst into a money-laundering case that her friend Daníel is investigating.

But she finds that there is more than meets the eye, and once again, all leads point towards Engihjalli, the street where Isafold lived and died, and a series of shocking secrets that could explain and endanger everything…

When everyone's favourite reformed miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, errs from the path of goodness, he starts seeing spirits again - this time of a girl, whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Ebenezer Scrooge wants to be a good man. He wants to be remembered.

He wants to be loved. And he never, ever wants to see a ghost again as long as he lives. But changing your ways on Christmas day is easy.

Changing your ways for the rest of your life is a little trickier. Almost a year on from his haunting, Scrooge is slipping. Only fundraising attempts with the formidable Mrs Tassell and his growing bond with Tiny Tim are keeping him on the straight and narrow.

When a lucrative business opportunity comes his way Scrooge jumps at the chance to make some quick money, but then he sees her. Another ghost, silent and terrifying. And in order to be free of this haunting he must solve her murder.

It leads him to investigate the connections between the upstanding men of business he used to admire and London's criminal underworld. As Christmas draws closer, and with it, Scrooge's Benevolent Christmas Feast for the Poor, he begins to realise there's more at stake than his own soul.