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For the first time read all 5 Alderman James Books in one place Follow the mysteries as murder and mayhem rule in these 5 highly rated historical mystery thrillers. Alderman James had a quiet enough life in Dublin. He carried out his work diligently as he tried to atone for mistakes he'd made in his younger years. When a vicious killer starts murdering in his jurisdiction James gets on the case at once, not realizing how deep a plot he is really getting himself into until it is far too late! Follow his investigations through these books culminating in the breathtaking ending o the series. ...

The Serial killer series that will put you over the edge! All five novels from the Birdwatcher Series in one collection. Join FBI Agent Sarah Brightwater & Journalist Tyler Ford as they try to catch enigmatic serial kiler Dwight Spalding. Set includes: An Unkiness of Ravens A Clattering of Jackdaws A Kettle of Hawks A Clamour of Rooks A Fall of Woodcocks

Evil is always just below the surface... Three loosely knit novels tell the stories of the people in the towns of Mercy, Gossamer Falls and Asperton as they try to come to grips with a growing evil in their midst. In Rampike, Sheriff Moorefield fights the supernatural in his remote mountain town, cut off by snow storms and failed communications. In Gossamer Falls, the whole town witnesses a spectacular natural event, only for it to turn sour very fast and leave them in a desperate fight to stay alive. In A Shaded Room, an escaped convict tries to come to terms with the world outside in the ...

Jacob has spent ten years trying to forget what he saw in the tree—the creature that killed a man and made him an outcast. Now, exiled to a remote cabin with his wife Bella and teenage twins, Jacob can finally hear the thing that destroyed his life. It's crossing rivers, closing the distance, coming for his family. But Bella doesn't believe him. The children are terrified of their father, not the monster. And as Jacob's hearing sharpens—hearing whispers from miles away, hearing the creature's voice in his mind—he loses the ability to hear the people right beside him. In the mountains,...

After surviving the horrors of the Black Death, weary traveler Stefan seeks solace in a remote village in Central Europe. Renting a cabin on the outskirts of the village, he hopes to find peace in the quiet solitude of the countryside. But when he discovers a dense forest known as the Whispering Woods, Stefan's newfound tranquility is shattered by strange rustling noises that haunt his every step.

While she was out enjoying her senior prom, Sarah Brighwater's mother was murdered in their home. The serial killer was known to the police but never caught. Now, 15 years later, Sarah is an FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit tracking down killers like the one who killed her mother. When a new string of murders begins and bodies are dumped near her old home town, Sarah wonders about the reemergence of her lifelong tormentor. Could it be him?

When murders in the poverty-stricken Liberties are credited to a savage dark beast with the soul of a recently deceased serial killer, Alderman James knows he must take on the case. He sees an all too human hand at work and is determined to win over the people he once let down so badly. With only the duplicitous and deceitful Hellfire Club member, Mr. Edwards, for assistance, James ventures out in the cold, snowy streets in search of the true killer. Can he solve the case and redeem himself once and for all? Or will the fear and anger in the streets finally boil over into chaos?

Outside an isolated forest community, by the forbidden cursed "Red Scowl", tracks are discovered that resemble no known animal. Fearful of getting in trouble with the village leader, Mor and Beathan keep this discovery to themselves. Soon, however, Mor grows more alarmed as news of a great pestilence arrives, and he wonders if these two things are somehow linked. He wants to speak up—just as he wanted to speak up when a woman he loved from afar was burned as a witch—but Mor is a simple man, and the more cunning Beathan keeps him quiet.

Two years after the horrible crimes of the serial killer "The Dolocher", bodies begin to amass in the dark alleyways of Dublin once more. When a letter arrives from the killer with a shocking claim, James knows he must act fast to put a stop to an all new stream of murders. He seeks out his diabolical associate, the Hellfire Clubman Mr. Edwards, in the hope that his satanic mind can bring some clarity to the murders.

Sheriff Jeylend Folks used to have an easy beat. He was back in the small town he grew up in, had a lovely wife, and a faithful dog. He couldn’t be happier. Now, things are spiralling out of control, and he is way out of his comfort zone.

It started out with a missing child, then came the slaughter of wild animals and now—what exactly? People are being brutally murdered in the town of Centerpoint and Sheriff Ted Colson has no idea who is behind it. He is unpopular and needs to get a handle on this soon. Some people feel it is the start of a new wave of evil over the town like that of almost two years previous, but Ted doesn't want to believe this. He can't believe this.

The low taverns and backroom gambling dens of Dublin are a long fall for an English nobleman. It is in these environs, however, where the growling evil within Thomas Olocher feels most at home. Each night, his darkness grows as he continues his cascade down toward the ultimate evil. Can Alderman James, ever seeking redemption for his own dark past, stop Olocher before it's too late?

New York, 1800. Three brutal murders. One impossible killer. The police have fingered David Stirling for the crimes, but Lord Muc—feared gang leader in the Five Points—doesn't believe a word of it, and sets out to prove the young man's innocence.

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness". As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

FBI Agent Sarah Brightwater and journalist Tyler Ford must team up once more to stop the evil machinations of mass serial killer Dwight Spalding. Two sets of unrelated murders in Virginia begin to become entwined as Spalding's web begins to be unraveled. Sarah is working both cases but can't let the link be known for fear of being taken off them and losing her chance to catch the man who killed her mother. Tyler's involvement in the case become more personal than he imagined possible. Will he be able to escape the plans of the vile murderer who is using him a plaything?

A mansion with a hellish past. A serial killer with a shadow. A city about to boil over. Having received a letter about a murder in the country mansion of Wild Boar Hall, Alderman James is only too happy to leave the city to investigate. For too long the seemingly endless cycle of murders in the Liberties has weighed on him. While the Alderman investigates this pastoral distraction, a sinister plan is set in motion back in Dublin. One that has James at the very heart of it all! Fear and paranoia return to the streets and things are made worse still when a new killer realizes he has a fan.

Judd Farnon had no choice but to risk death in escaping prison. If he stayed, he was a dead man. An old boarding house where if you are honest, no questions are asked offers him the start of a new life. While trying to forget his past and the events that put him in jail in the first place, Judd finds more and more people are showing up in his room at the boarding house claiming it as their own.

Lawrence Karrier is the first to see the beauty while out on his morning run. A solitary thin cloud drifting down from the mountains and settling into the lake, like nothing he has ever seen before. Later in the day as the local factory empties and the bar fills up, the spectacle of a hundred such clouds against the evening sky beguiles the whole town. That is until someone is unfortunate enough to touch one.

Something doesn't want the inhabitants of an isolated mountain town to leave. When local hermit Maul Thorndean disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a bewildering state. All of the surrounding trees have turned white and brittle and are leaning towards the cabin. There is blood on the floor but no sign of Maul. The dying of the trees spreads and soon the townspeople are encircled by ash grey trees with limbs that wont allow them to leave. That's when the people begin to disappear.

Things are a little off in Ed’s world when his young son Henry receives an autism diagnosis, but when childish scribbling takes on a more sinister form, Ed knows he has to do all he can to protect his children. With no one on his side, Ed sets out to discover the secret behind the sketch and destroy it once and for all.