Product Details

• Published on: 2008-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 258 pages

Synopsis
Scepter Rand is a beautiful psychic who heads up "The Spookies," a paranormal investigation team with a truckload of modern ghost-hunting equipment. Assisted by the spirit of her late butler, Fishwick, Spector and her two partners, ex-police officer Pete Brennan and wheeler-dealer Kevin Keeley, are hot on the trail of a dangerous poltergeist. Their investigation leads them to the northern moors of England and Melmerby Manor, a brooding 18th century estate overflowing with pirated DVDs. When the DVDs are swapped for a dead body, The Spookies team is fingered for the crime. Now they must race against time to prove their innocence by trying to make sense of ghostly text messages, crazed drivers determined to run them off the road and an enraged spirit seeking revenge for his untimely death. Their investigation draws them into a world of seedy mobsters, millionaire pirated movie producers, a gutter journalist looking for a story at any cost, and the grumbling spirits of an English stately home. Look's like just another night's work for The Spookies team in this supernatural mystery that will tickle your funnybone while doling out a healthy measure of goosebumps.

Customer Reviews

A great fun read
The Spookies are an unlikely, but likeable, trio of heroes: a self-professed charmer and ex copper who doesn't believe in ghosts, a techno wide-boy who's afraid of them, and an aristo with a dead family retainer who aids her in her dealings with the spirit world.

An action-packed yarn full of mysterious messages and dodgy dealings, The Haunting of Melmerby Manor is also a humorous story with lively characters and with a dollop of foreboding thrown in for good measure.