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Will Kingdom
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Mean SpiritMean Spirit Newpbk 05 Jul 01
The Cold CallingThe Cold Calling
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New British Pbk Original - Bantam (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Mean Spirit
The lines are open…
…but the messages are sounding bleak for Seffi Callard - cool, charismatic, beautiful and now the world’s best-known spiritualist medium. Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, she’s been forced to back away from the glow of public adulation, becoming a paranoid recluse at her father’s home in the Cotswolds.
Maybe the only person who can understand Seffi’s crisis is her old schoolteacher Marcus Bacton, who was the first to identify her skills. Marcus, now editor of an obscure journal of the paranormal, sends his assistant, American journalist Grayle Underhill, to Seffi’s rural hideaway . . . and into a nightmare.
Who is stalking Seffi Callard - and from which side of the grave? The search for an answer will involve disillusioned police detective Bobby Maiden and the eccentric entertainer Cindy Mars-Lewis - himself facing vilification by his public after a series of bizarre tragedies linked to the national obsession with getting rich quick.
At a Victorian neo-Gothic castle in the Malvern Hills they discover that, four one psychopathic killer, getting rich is less important than never getting dead.
Brilliant and original, Will Kingdom’s second novel - full of sharp characterization, black humour and electrifying suspense - will convince you that there really are more crimes in heaven and earth .,. .
Acclaim for Cold Calling
'Kingdom is a major discovery… combines crime thriller with the supernatural without diminishing either' The Times
‘Part Wicker Man, part trad-whodunnit, part tough gangster thriller, The Cold Calling finally stands revealed as a tidy charmer and Kingdom as` a real find.’ Crimetime
‘An unusual and enjoyable thriller set among the prehistoric sites of Britain’ Chic
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British Pbk Original - Corgi (1998)
The Cold Calling
Life isn't easy for Detective Inspector Bobby Maiden. Death is even harder.
When Maiden is revived in hospital after dying in a hit and run incident, his memories are not the familiar ones of bright lights and angelic music, only of a cold, harsh place he has no wish to revisit...ever.
But his experience means that Bobby Maiden may be the only person who can reach The Green Man, a serial murderer the police don't even know exists...a predator who returns to stone circles, burial mounds and ancient churches in the belief that he is defending Britain's sacred heritage.
Meanwhile, New Age journalist Grayle Underhill arrives from New York to search for her sister who's become obsessed with the arcane mysteries of the Stone Age. The bloody trail leads to a remote village on the Welsh Border...and to people who know there are more crimes in heaven and earth…

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About The Author
Will Kingdom is a journalist who has specialised in the paranormal. He is married and lives at the foot of the Black Mountains,

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Mean Spirit (Bantam Pbk, 2001) New Pbk Jul 01
  • The Cold Calling (Corgi Pbk, 1998)

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