Haunted by the Past: Volume 2
Published on 19. December 2022
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-9821-9228-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ishmael Jones knows all there is to know about solving mysteries. Together with his love and partner in crimes, Penny Belcourt, he specializes in cases of the weird and uncanny.
Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him.
Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England. None of the usual headless monks or walled-up nuns-just stories of lost souls that dance with the statues in the grounds; doors that won't stay shut, and rooms that aren't always there; and something that prowls the house in the early hours, endlessly searching. They say... it crawls.
Does Lucas' disappearance have something to do with the organization or the Hall's haunted past? Ishmael and Penny have to work their way through a series of mysterious clues and misleading suspects, uncovering secret after secret, before they finally arrive at a truth that no-one suspected.
The problem with history is that it's not always content to stay in the past.
About Simon R. Green:
"A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world." -Jim Butcher on the Nightside series
"A splendid riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, conveyed with trademark wisecracking humor, and carried out with maximum bloodshed and mayhem. In a word, irresistible." -Kirkus, Starred Review of Simon R. Green's Night Fall
"[F]or those who want a fantasy-genre mash-up that doesn't slow down." -Booklist on From a Drood to a Kill
"Simon R. Green is a great favorite of mine. It's almost impossible to find a writer with a more fertile imagination than Simon. He's a writer who seems endlessly inventive." -Charlaine Harris
Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him.
Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England. None of the usual headless monks or walled-up nuns-just stories of lost souls that dance with the statues in the grounds; doors that won't stay shut, and rooms that aren't always there; and something that prowls the house in the early hours, endlessly searching. They say... it crawls.
Does Lucas' disappearance have something to do with the organization or the Hall's haunted past? Ishmael and Penny have to work their way through a series of mysterious clues and misleading suspects, uncovering secret after secret, before they finally arrive at a truth that no-one suspected.
The problem with history is that it's not always content to stay in the past.
About Simon R. Green:
"A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world." -Jim Butcher on the Nightside series
"A splendid riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, conveyed with trademark wisecracking humor, and carried out with maximum bloodshed and mayhem. In a word, irresistible." -Kirkus, Starred Review of Simon R. Green's Night Fall
"[F]or those who want a fantasy-genre mash-up that doesn't slow down." -Booklist on From a Drood to a Kill
"Simon R. Green is a great favorite of mine. It's almost impossible to find a writer with a more fertile imagination than Simon. He's a writer who seems endlessly inventive." -Charlaine Harris
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Riverdale
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-9228-0 (9781982192280)
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Simon R. Green is the New York Times best-selling author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels. Green sold his first book in 1988 and the very next year was commissioned to write the best-selling novelization of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. From there he went on to write many more series of books, including Deathstalker, Nightside, Secret History, Forest Kingdom, and the Ishmael Jones mysteries. His books have sold more than 3.8 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.