Eve is the prequel to Shani Struthers’ bestselling PSYCHIC SURVEYS series. Perfect for fans of James Herbert, Stephen King and Dean Koontz.“Eve is a poignant story with a knockout impact.” ~ Mallory Heart Reviews
What do you do when a whole town is haunted? In 1899, in the North Yorkshire market town of Thorpe Morton, a tragedy occurred; 59 people died at the market hall whilst celebrating … Morton, a tragedy occurred; 59 people died at the market hall whilst celebrating Christmas Eve, many of them children. One hundred years on and the spirits of the deceased are restless still, ‘haunting’ the community, refusing to let them forget.
In 1999, psychic investigators Theo Lawson and Ness Patterson are called in to help, sensing immediately on arrival how weighed down the town is. Quickly they discover there’s no safe haven. The past taints everything.
Hurtling towards the anniversary as well as a new millennium, their aim is to move the spirits on, to cleanse the atmosphere so everyone – the living and the dead – can start again. But the spirits prove resistant and soon Theo and Ness are caught up in battle, fighting against something that knows their deepest fears and can twist them in the most dangerous of ways.
They’ll need all their courage to succeed and the help of a little girl too – a spirit who didn’t die at the hall, who shouldn’t even be there…
Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall
Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me
Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street
Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage
Psychic Surveys Companion Novels
Eve: A Christmas Ghost Story
*Only EVE, Blakemort and Thirteen are standalone stories. The main PSYCHIC SURVEYS books are all follow-ons and there will be six in total.
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I enjoyed this spooky Holiday Story. I had not read any other Psychic Surveys books so I was unfamiliar with the characters. Theo and Ness have been asked to investigate a Market Hall Haunting on the anniversary of the tragedy. For a hundred years the tragedy has haunted the entire town and everyone who lived there. In this book Theo and Ness have just begun working together but they are determined to rid the town of the spirits and bring Christmas back. I enjoyed the setting and the characters. I liked the way Theo and Ness worked together. The mystery was good but I was disappointed that some questions were never solved. The story was a quick read, perfect for the Holidays. I am looking for word to reading more in this series. Enjoy
WoW, where do I begin? I will first explain that an hour ago I hadn’t even heard of this wonderful author, not until I downloaded the e-book Eve, which I am still finding unputdownable (I am not sure if that is a word but if not it sure should be) This book is so believable, that I had to peel myself from its pages to Google the town of Thorpe Morton trying to reach the history archives, even though at no stage did I read the words “true story” it still remained to me a valid possibility that this was indeed taken from the archives of a long forgotten market town disaster in 1899 on Christmas Eve. I am truly in awe of this author, and will follow her till the day I pass over myself. Way to go girl you smashed it !.
OPINION OF BOOK: Eve is well written, easy to read and entertaining. I was engrossed shortly after starting. The characters are dynamic and individual. I got a sense of how broken and down Thorpe Morton was when they got there. Eve is written in British English, just a warning for those who are used to American English. There isn’t much more to say about it, other than it was a great read and I look forward to more in the series.
DO I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK: Yes.
SPOILER SECTION (WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT): Thorpe Morton, small village that suffered a terrible tragedy one hundred years ago. The local miners were striking for safer conditions in the mines. The management offered an olive branch of sorts, they would throw a Christmas party for all the families, then the miners and management would meet to talk things out. All the miner’s, with their families, came to the hall on Christmas Eve. The festivities were held upstairs. There was only one staircase, it was steep and narrow, with a door at the bottom that opened inward, toward the stairs. When the party was in full swing, before anybody from management had shown up, an unknown voice yelled fire. The party halted, then panic ensued. People rushed for the stairs, somebody tripped, and people piled up at the bottom of the staircase. They were being crushed against the door. The people at the top could see what was happening and the people at the bottom couldn’t open it from the outside. But the worst part of all of this; those who died in that stairwell died in vein. There was no fire. It had been a horrible prank. The miner’s blamed management and the town became a bleak place. Even one hundred years later, the sorrow and anger hang over the town like a suffocating blanket. Theo and Ness, psychics, have been called in to help release the spirits trapped at the hall. When they arrive, they find out they are dealing not only with those but with parasitic spirits that are feeding off of all the misery created by the events of long ago. On the hundred-year anniversary of the party Theo and Ness go in to free the spirits and fight the strangle-hold the parasites have on them and the town.