Chris Sharpe Libri

The Curse of Ezekiel "Trauma always attaches itself to trauma." In the dark and dusty garret of Oak Cottage Zoe Fowler first encounters the soft, haunting voice of, Hannah, calling for her lost love. And so, by way of Zoe's traumatised psyche, the forgotten story of Hannah and her family begins to unfold. This includes her deaf-mute brother, her bullying father, and the tyrannical figure Ezekiel Pomfrey, the punishing puritanical priest of St Catherine's Church, way back in the seventeen-hundreds, and of course the enigmatic, Adam. All of which are locked into the distant memory of time by an ancient biblical curse. Linked by an old wooden rocking chair, the trauma of Hannah's tragic life and the mystery of Adam attaches itself to Zoe's own sad, trauma. Only the understanding character of Dotty Vinke, with her mischievous smile and startling blue eyes, comes to the aid of a troubled Zoe. With her hypnotic influence, Dotty allows Zoe to delve back into the past to uncover long locked away memories, both hers and Hannah's, all ready and waiting to be freed. The Curse of Ezekiel is a spellbinding tale of grief, Phantoms, and religious obsession with a built-in ambiguity designed to keep the reader's attention. The story cleverly maneuvers itself between the unsettling outer limits of the supernatural and the spiritualistic, until at last the waiting is over.

The Ghosts of Gehen Hill "Coincidence rules our lives, fate being the journey, destiny our goal." At least that's what Barry Hoffer would tell you. Hoffer, his daughter Issy and the enigmatic Maggie Stride are the main characters of this intriguing murder mystery, whose lives are repeatedly dogged by a series of puzzling coincidences. The story begins in the year 1885, the victim being Police Constable Jack Pawley. Fast forward to the present day and the primary coincidence is that Barry Hoffer's car, without plausible explanation, breaks down at exactly the same spot that Jack Pawley was brutally murdered. 'You must be connected in some way, ' Maggie Stride says to architect Hoffer, suggesting that it is his destiny to discover exactly how his family might be connected to a tragedy which happened, getting on for a hundred and forty years ago. There is of course a twist in the tale? Poacher, Gideon Moggs is arrested for the murder of P.C Pawley and duly hanged three months later, protesting his innocence to the end. The regular manifestation of ghosts from the past, plus circumstantial evidence, also suggests that perhaps Moggs might not have been P.C. Pawley's murderer. The story continues even though Hoffer and his daughter's attempts to identify the true killer are thwarted, until Maggie Stride is, at last, prepared to give up her own, long-held secret.