<div>The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather&rsquo;s North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his family&rsquo;s past&mdash;through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint, meeting Benedict in Oxford, starts to research his story, chilling facts begin to emerge&mdash;facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing reality. Could the chess set&rsquo;s malevolence be reaching out to the present?</div>

The Sin Eater

<div>&ldquo;An inventively plotted, goose-bumps inducing ghost story.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist A house with a sinister past&mdash;and a grisly power . . . When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past fascinate him&mdash;even though it has such a sinister reputation that no one has lived there for almost a century. But it&rsquo;s not until Michael meets the young widow, Nell West, that the menace within the house wakes . . . &ldquo;Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;A chilling mystery from another era. . . . Once again Rayne delivers.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Property of a Lady

<div>A conjoined twin&rsquo;s disappearance leads a London journalist to a mystery reaching back to the turn of the last century in this &ldquo;hefty suspense thriller&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Journalist Harry Fitzglen is intrigued by his latest subject, the London artist Simone Anderson, whose enigmatic photographs hint at a mysterious past. What exactly happened to Simone&rsquo;s twin sister Sonia, to whom she had once been conjoined&mdash;and who disappeared years before? And how might Simone and Sonia be connected to another pair of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel, born nearly a century ago? Every question Harry asks points him to the Shropshire village of West Fferna and a ruined mansion on the Welsh border called Mortmain House. As Harry uncovers the grim history of Mortmain, he finds himself drawn into a set of interlocking mysteries, each one more curious and disturbing than the last. Set in three different time periods across the twentieth century, A Dark Dividing is &ldquo;reminiscent of Henry James or Wilkie Collins . . . riveting and hard to put down&rdquo; (Portland Book Review).</div>

A Dark Dividing

<div>The brutal history of an abandoned English prison comes to life in this gothic novel of superstition, criminality, and capital punishment. In the northwest of England, Calvary Gaol was a fearsome house of correction where many prisoners were put to death before it was shut down. With its grim fa&ccedil;ade and terrifying past, it remains as foreboding as ever. Especially on a chilly night, when its ghosts can all but be heard chattering: from the doomed political radical to the dapper ladies&rsquo; man with a knife in his sleeve, the blackmailed doctor, or the spiritualist who fed, like a vampire, on the misery of World War I. Though long abandoned, the ghosts of Calvary are still calling, and TV producer Chad Ingram can&rsquo;t stop listening. With a crew and a journalist in tow, he resolves to capture the prison&rsquo;s notorious execution chamber on film. With the bustle and technology of the twenty-first century, surely they&rsquo;ve got nothing to fear . . . &ldquo;Equal parts Daphne du Maurier, Joseph Tey, and Ruth Rendell.&rdquo; &mdash;Mystery Guild</div>

The Death Chamber

<div>A once-glittering music hall now hides dark mysteries in this atmospheric thriller set in both present day and Edwardian London. A hundred years ago, the Tarleton Music Hall on London&#39;s south bank was one of the city&#39;s most popular attractions. People lined up night after night to see its headliner, the legendary song-and-dance man Toby Chance. But that was before Toby disappeared in 1914. People were shocked to see the Tarleton suddenly locked up. But that&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s been ever since. Today, with property prices soaring, an investment group hires Robert Fallon to survey the place. Fallon is as charmed by the project, especially when he hears the rumors of a Singing Ghost who haunts the building. But he must admit that something is indeed odd about the Tarleton. What, for instance, can be made of the mysterious wall in the basement? Fallon delves into the Tarleton&rsquo;s history, and learns the story of the brilliant but troubled Toby Chance. But the deeper he goes, the harder it is to shake the feeling that he is being menaced by the past.</div>

Ghost Song

<div>An abandoned English village holds generations of dark secrets that are about to be uncovered in this gothic thriller by the author of A Dark Dividing. Some fifty years ago, Priors Bramley was emptied of its residents&mdash;all for the sake of a Cold War experiment with chemical weapons that went wrong. Since then, the cordoned off town has been known at The Poisoned village. But the locals don&rsquo;t know the half of it. Now, as The Poisoned Village is set to be reopened, its secrets are set to be unleashed. Tracing the contagion leads inexorably to the long-abandoned Cadence Manor, once home to generations of secretive, powerful bankers and their elegant wives. What happened there in the years before the World War I? What murderous madness infected the family? And what is the source of the eerie music that, even now, can be heard drifting down the crumbling village streets?</div>

Sarah Rayne

Books By Sarah Rayne (6 Books)

The Sin Eater

Property of a Lady

A Dark Dividing

The Death Chamber

Ghost Song

What Lies Beneath

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Sarah Rayne

Books By Sarah Rayne (6 Books)

The Sin Eater

Property of a Lady

A Dark Dividing

The Death Chamber

Ghost Song

What Lies Beneath

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