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Alice in India

My latest novel, Alice and the Broken Dead, finds Alice Deaton travelling to India to help a family beset by a poltergeist-style haunting.

Alice in India - Pushkar

For those of you who have read my young adult series, The Secret of the Tirthas, you’ll know how prominently India features in the first of those (and occasionally throughout the remainder). My inspiration came from an extended trip I made when I was 25, which incorporated a month in Nepal and 3 in India – followed by a month in Burma and 2 in Thailand.

Alice in India - Pushkar hills

I’ve shared some pics of me in Nepal earlier this month, and now here’s a few from India, including the holy town of Pushkar, on which the fictional town of Pashar is based in Alice and the Broken Dead. Plus bonus content of the mischievous monkeys that hung around the town, and a shot of me when I had a beard!

Monkeys in Pushkar
Monkeys grooming
Cheeky monkey!

Find out what happens to Alice in India in Alice and the Broken Dead on Amazon now!

Alice and the Broken Dead: A Reading

Today, a short reading from my new ghost story, Alice and the Broken Dead, perfect to get you in the mood for Halloween!

It’s the latest in my bestselling series The Ghosts of Alice, about a young woman who discovers she has a strange ability to connect with the dead.

Each book is a standalone ghost story, but connections run between them. So you can read them in any order, although it’s probably best to start with the first, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood.

Check out Alice and the Broken Dead on Amazon here.

The Ghosts of Alice: Pre-Halloween Sale!

PRE-HALLOWEEN SALE! 🎃

Ghosts of Alice pre-halloween sale

Just to let you know that, to celebrate the release of the fourth Ghosts of Alice book, Alice and the Broken Dead, I’m running a Kindle Countdown Deal on the other books in the bestselling series about a woman with a mysterious connection to the dead. The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is 50% off and The Girl in the Ivory Dress and Alice and the Devil 35% off!

Perfect reading for the run up to Halloween – grab them while you can! 👻

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Alice and the Broken Dead – out now!

It’s release day!!

Alice and the Broken Dead out now

The latest Ghosts of Alice novel, Alice and the Broken Dead, is out now!

I’d been planning to get it out at the start of October, well in time for Halloween – and thankfully, despite a few set backs, I’ve made it!

So what’s in store for our intrepid ghost-whisperer Alice next?

Well, it starts with Alice happy – very happy – standing in the Himalayas watching the sunrise over the mountains. Of course, as you’d expect, things can only go downhill – literally 😊 – from there, but at least she gets her moment of perfection. (I sometimes wonder about writers, locking themselves away all day, dreaming up torturous scenarios for their characters…)

Here’s the full blurb to whet your appetite:

She realised the emotion on his face was something else altogether…Fear.
Nicholas lifted his arm and pointed at her.
‘What?’ said his mother. ‘What is it, Nicholas?’
‘Her,’ he said. ‘It was her.’

Having lost her job at the Trust for England, Alice heads to India via Nepal to help a wealthy family beset by disturbing paranormal phenomena. She is soon embroiled in a strange and terrifying mystery. Who – or rather what – is bringing the family to breaking point, smashing things in their state-of-the-art house and threatening the couple and their two children?

Increasingly thwarted in her attempts to understand the destructive entity, Alice resorts to a wild scheme – one that threatens to bring more tragedy in its wake.

Has she made a terrible mistake?

Perfect to get you in the mood for Spooky Season!

Click here to view it on Amazon – and if you do read it please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Reviews make a huge difference in getting the books you love in front of other readers – which helps me to keep writing books. 😉

Thanks – and happy (?!) reading! 😱