Peter James’s excursions into horror prove every bit as engrossing as his bestselling crime fiction, and the follow-up to The House on Cold Hill mines the same rich atmosphere of unease and encroaching dread. Eerie and sinister, the return to the titular abode uncovers a host of disturbing goings-on.
From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes The Secret of Cold Hill. The spine-chilling follow-up to The House on Cold Hill. Now a smash-hit stage play.
Cold Hill House has been razed to the ground by fire, replaced with a development of ultra-modern homes. Gone with the flames are the violent memories of the house's history, and a new era has begun.
Although much of Cold Hill Park is still a construction site, the first two families move into their new houses. For Jason and Emily Danes, this is their forever home, and for Maurice and Claudette Penze-Weedell, it's the perfect place to live out retirement. Despite the ever present rumble of cement mixers and diggers, Cold Hill Park appears to be the ideal place to live. But looks are deceptive and it's only a matter of days before both couples start to feel they are not alone in their new homes.
There is one thing that never appears in the estate agent brochures: nobody has ever survived beyond forty in Cold Hill House and no one has ever truly left . . .
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509816255
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 264 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 25 mm
Impeccable . . . - Sunday Times on The House on Cold Hill
James is a compelling storyteller and he ratchets up the tension in increments, so that his readers will be suitably terrified. By the time you want to scream 'Look behind you!', it's already too late - ‘Halloween Chillers’, Daily Mail, on The House on Cold Hill
I previously listened to The House on Cold Hill as an audio book so wanted to read this novel which follows on and includes and refers to, characters in the previous book.
Although I am not really a fan of ghost...
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Fantastic great twists please write some more like this
This was another absolute corker of a read from Peter James! The whole 'haunted house' trope is one of my favourites, even if they do really creep me out the most once I turn the lights off at night. The... More
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