Jim Rook has the ability to see ghosts and spirits. A young boy, Jack Hubbard, joins Rook’s remedial English class while his father is completing a film about his epic journey across Alaska. Shortly after his arrival, five students are found dead.

In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire crackles in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars of Irish folk, die in the blaze. 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 competetive Irish folk dancing, she must face her most chilling killer yet... **Review In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire crackles in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars of Irish folk, die in the blaze. 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 competetive Irish folk dancing, she must face her most chilling killer yet... Katie Maguire investigates the deaths of thirteen Irish folk dancers in a mysterious fire. Graham Masterton was a bestselling horror writer who has now turned his talent to crimewriting. He lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired the Katie Maguire series. Visit katiemaguire.co.uk 'One of this country's most exciting crime novelists ... if you have not read one, read them all now' Daily Mail. About the Author Graham Masterton was a bestselling horror writer who has now turned his talent to crimewriting. He lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired the Katie Maguire series. Visit katiemaguire.co.uk

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 scripture this is the work of Satan, but Beatrice suspects the hands of men. As she closes in on the killer, she must act quickly to unmask him - or become the next victim herself...

Julia Winward, a young American woman, has been missing in England for nearly a year. When her mutilated body is discovered in the Thames, her brother Josh is determined to find out what happened to her during that lost time. But nothing Josh discovers makes any sense and he soon unearths a terrible secret. Julia had been working for a company that shut down 60 years ago, and living at an address that hadn't existed since World War II...

Tasha and Michael are drivingback home to San Fransisco when a pick-up rams their car, forcing them off theroad. The car spins, and Tasha hits her head. Michael, terrified that Tasha isdead, tries to free them from the wreckage, but before he can do so, he'sblinded by the light of an oncoming vehicle . . . He wakes to find himself in the hospitalof a small town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. What is he doingthere? Who is he? He can't even remember his own name – Gregory Merrick,according to the doctor. As he convalesces, he becomesacquainted with the community and forms a relationship with a smart, prettylocal girl. But as he recovers his mobility, he begins to notice odd thingshappening. People disappearing. Strangers being ignored by the locals, as ifthey weren't even there. Then his new girlfriend vanishes, and he begins tothink the unthinkable . . . could he actually be dead? The truth, however, isfar more shocking . . .

Katie Maguire hunts a serial killer targeting nuns in the gruesome new thriller from Graham Masterton.In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun lies dead. She has been suffocated. It looks like a mercy-killing - until another sister from the same convent is found viciously murdered, 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 discovers a fifty year old secret that just might lead her to the killer... if the killer doesn't find her first.

Bonnie's job – cleaning up after violent homicides – is not for the faint hearted. But for Bonnie it's a business she has built from the ground up; a service that she can be proud of. By day she sells make-up under her rather too amorous boss, a strange but necessary contrast to her gruesome night job. Working two jobs isn't easy, but with a husband like Duke, an unemployed drunk, she needs the money.Blood soaked carpets and bullet holed plaster work might have become the norm, but when she notices a connection between a spate of senseless murders in which people inexplicably kill their loved ones, her tough exterior starts to crack. The links she sees sound crazy even to her, and can only be explained by the supernatural.First published in 2002, Trauma is a chilling look at what could drive honest people to turn on those they love the most.

From BooklistJim Rook, the community-college remedial English teacher and investigator of strange phenomena, returns for another adventure. It begins somberly: Rook accidentally runs over and kills his beloved cat, Tiddles. But then one of his students gives him a basket with an unusual gift inside: Tiddles, looking and acting as if nothing had happened. The student tells Jim that this is a gift from Kwisin, a Korean spirit—or perhaps demon—who is expressing gratitude, in advance, for something Jim will do for her (naturally Jim figures this probably isn’t a good sign, and, as usual, he’s right). As with the previous Rook novels, the story is frightening without being terrifying, with a hero who’s a regular guy who happens to possess some psychic abilities that enable him to cross over the boundary between the real and the surreal. A solid entry in the series. --David Pitt About the AuthorGraham Masterton's first novel, T"he Manitou," was a bestseller and an instant classic and was made into a feature film. Masterton has won an Edgar Award and France's prestigious Prix Julia Verglanger. Several of his stories have been adapted for television. Masterton's more than one hundred novels include "Charnel House, The Chosen Child," and "Maiden Voyage" (a" New York Times" bestseller). He has written for adults, young adults, and children and edited several anthologies. Earlier in his career, Masterton edited men's magazines, including "Penthouse," He has written a number nonfiction books on sex, including "How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed," which has sold more than three million copies. Masterton and his wife, Wiescka, live in Ireland.

Somewhere in the city of Cork, a woman's cry echoes through the rainy streets.On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a burly man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body. She is half-naked, starving, screaming. She has been trapped here for three days.It doesn't take DS Katie Maguire long to identify the murder victim. He is someone she has been trying to convict for years - a cruel and powerful pimp who terrorised the girls who worked for him.It's Katie's job to catch the killer. But with men like this dead, the city is safer - and so are the scared young women who are trafficked into Cork. When a second pimp is horrifically murdered, Katie must decide. Should she do her job, or follow her conscience? Should she allow the killer to strike again?

'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES. *Immune to pain, invincible in combat... all America would one day fear the masked warriors of the Tengu... *In Japanese mythology, the TENGU is the most terrible of all demons: a living force of evil that infects its followers with the mad strength of the beserk and the capacity to survive attack from any weapon... At the close of World War II, the TENGU was Japan's most terrifying secret weapon. Now the demon is unleashed again – this time in a diabolical plot to wreak vengeance on America for the mega-destruction of Hiroshima... Steeped in the sinister magic of ancient Japan and rich in exotic sensuality, TENGU is a terrifying novel of nuclear revenge – and Graham Masterton's most stunningly horrific thriller to date.

From BooklistWhen masked men break into her house and make off with her two children, Minneapolis real-estate agent Lily Blake at first figures her ex-husband is behind it. But when the FBI is unable to find the children, or any evidence that the ex-husband is involved, Blake turns to a Native American private investigator, who in turn asks a shaman to conjure an Indian spirit, Wendigo, to help find the missing children, inadvertently unleashing a powerful force that will not stop until it gets what it wants. Masterton once again taps into ancient mythology and mines it for contemporary horror, although it must be said that this is not one of his better efforts: the story seems forced, the characters a bit awkward. Still, there are enough thrills and chills here to keep fans of Masterton's best work (say, Descendant, 2006) happy, if not overwhelmed. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedAbout the AuthorGraham Masterton's first novel, T"he Manitou," was a bestseller and an instant classic and was made into a feature film. Masterton has won an Edgar Award and France's prestigious Prix Julia Verglanger. Several of his stories have been adapted for television. Masterton's more than one hundred novels include "Charnel House, The Chosen Child," and "Maiden Voyage" (a" New York Times" bestseller). He has written for adults, young adults, and children and edited several anthologies. Earlier in his career, Masterton edited men's magazines, including "Penthouse," He has written a number nonfiction books on sex, including "How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed," which has sold more than three million copies. Masterton and his wife, Wiescka, live in Ireland.

Jim Rook gets the shock of his life when he returns for a new semester to find something more than unpleasant in his classroom. Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it’s going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn’t going to be merely bad: it’s going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally . . .**

It enters the water, and takes on the shape of The Swimmer...He recognises her voice, but she is hysterical. She has no one else to turn to. Her son has been killed, drowned, but the murderer has left no trace. Her distraught tears shake him to his core - he must help, if he can. She says that the child was a victim of a vengeful spirit. She says that the police believe she is insane. Jennie Oppenheimer was once a student in Jim Rook's Special Class II in '91. And she knows about his psychic powers, that he feels demons running through the streets, that he sees dead people, with their sad, bewildered faces reflecting in windows. So she is convinced that he will have an answer for her - and for her dead son, Mickey. But soon the angry, restless spirit of The Swimmer claims one victim after another - all friends or students of the gifted Jim Rook - and he realises that her hatred is directed at him. One person knows why she is seeking revenge, but only Rook has the strength to fight against the destructive forces of The Swimmer and the ally she has found in water...