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There were things at Teind House that strangers must never find; things that must be kept concealed from the prying world at all costs... Selina March has lived in the remote Scottish hamlet of Inchcape, with its mysterious Round Tower , for nearly fifty years. Brought up by elderly relatives, long since dead, she now lives alone, shunning the outside world as much as she can.

But when she reluctantly accepts a paying guest, Selina's secluded life will change for ever. Crime writer Joanna Savile has come to Inchcape to research her latest novel by interviewing inmates at Moy, the asylum for the criminally insane situated nearby. Her secret aim is to question former child murderer, Mary Maskelyne, Moy's most infamous patient. Joanna's prying will yield unexpected results. For, although they have never met, Selina March and Mary Maskelyne are connected by a shared family tragedy: a terrible act of unspeakable cruelty that took place in India fifty years before.

And there are secrets in Selina's more recent past, too. Secrets that are about to be uncovered with the most devastating and shocking consequences...

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Two pairs of twins. Born a hundred years apart. United by a chilling secret

At first, journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued.

Just what did happen to Simone's twin sister who disappeared without trace several years before? And what is the Anderson sisters' connection to another set of twin girls, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London on 1st January 1900?

All Harry's lines of enquiry seem to lead to the small Shropshire village of Weston Fferna and the imposing ruin of Mortmain House, standing grim and forbidding on the Welsh borders. As Harry delves into the violent and terrible history of Mortmain, in an attempt to uncover what happened to Simone and Sonia, and, one hundred years before them, to Viola and Sorrel Quinton, he finds himself drawn into a number of interlocking mysteries, each one more puzzling – and sinister – than the last.

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Lucy Trent is perfectly used to having the legend of her glamorous, disreputable grandmamma disinterred from time to time – the infamous silent-screen star, Lucretia von Wolff, whose lovers were legion, whose scandals were numerous, and whose life ended abruptly in a bizarre double murder and suicide at the Ashwood film studios in 1952. She rather enjoys Lucretia's legend, although most of the family would prefer it to be quietly forgotten.

But when an inquisitive schoolteacher, Trixie Smith, is found murdered in the now-derelict studios, disturbing facts about the past begin to emerge – facts which seem to point back to the eerie legend of the child known simply as Alraune – the child alleged to have been born at the outbreak of WWII. Alraune, named for Lucretia's most famous film, has always seemed nothing more than a ghost-child, a semi-fable created by various publicity machines. But did Alraune actually exist? And if so, why was it a childhood “so bizarre and so utterly tragic it's best not repeated,” as Lucy's beloved Aunt Deborah insists.

In the ensuing murder investigation, Lucy is to discover the truth of her family's dark and often poignant history – a history which spans the glittering concert halls of 1920s Vienna to the bleak environs of wartime Auschwitz .

And at the heart of it all lies the shocking truth about the mysterious child called Alraune.

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“The dangerous thing about spider-light is that it hides things - things you never knew existed in the world. But once you have seen those things, you can never afterwards forget them ...”

When Antonia Weston comes to stay at a remote cottage in a sleepy market town, she is hoping for peace and anonymity after a shattering and all-too-public tragedy in her life. But shortly after her arrival, a series of disturbing incidents occur - incidents that eerily echo a past she is trying to forget. As Antonia struggles to re-build her life, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the macabre history surrounding her: the disused watermill, Twygrist, with its brooding darkness, and the now-vanished Latchkill Asylum. Memories of Latchkill still linger: memories of how, when the autumn dusk - the ‘spider-light' - fell, no one would dare walk past its gates. Because a hundred years ago, people had lost their names and their identities inside Latchkill's walls.

But Antonia's fascination with the linked histories of Latchkill and Twygrist is put to dreadful use by someone from her own past. Someone who knows all about Twygrist's darkness and someone who hates Antonia enough to plan her death.

There can be a fate worse than death . . .

Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious hold over Georgina Grey. For her family’s history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible past. It’s there that her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s, where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever. The experiment was never spoken of afterwards, but uneasy memories of it lingered for many years.

Georgina is intrigued to learn that her mysterious great-grandfather left his money to psychic research, apparently ignoring the claims of his own family. Travelling to the Cumbrian market town of Thornbeck to help wind up the unusual legacy, she meets TV presenter and anthropologist, Chad Ingram. And Chad is fascinated by Calvary too. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the now-disused gaol – an experiment that will take place in the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber.
But Chad’s experiment and Georgina’s curiosity are to have horrifying consequences. For there is someone in Thornbeck who is prepared to go to any lengths to ensure that the macabre past remains buried…

“All theatres are haunted…”

The old Tarleton music hall in London’s Bankside is the subject of a mysterious restraint that came into being in 1914 and has kept the theatre closed for over ninety years.

When Robert Fallon is asked to survey The Tarleton, he finds clues indicating that its long twilight sleep may conceal a sinister secret. He joins forces with Hilary, a researcher into Edwardian theatre, and they discover the legend of The Tarleton’s ‘ghost’ – a figure whose face was always hidden and who was first seen in the time of the charismatic singer/songwriter, Toby Chance, once the darling of Edwardian audiences until he vanished suddenly and inexplicably in the early 1900s…

After almost a century, The Tarleton’s dark silence is about to end, but there are people who find this a threatening prospect, and as Hilary and Robert delve into the remarkable history of one of London’s oldest music halls, they both become menaced by a secret from the past – a secret that has its roots in a shattering event that had to be kept hidden at all costs.