Sarah Rayne, Author . Pocket $7.99 (567p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5090-4
Rayne (pseudonym for "a well-known British author") draws readers into four creepy stories in this hefty suspense thriller. Journalist Harry Fitzglen is unimpressed when he's sent to profile a new London artist named Simone Anderson....
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Sarah Rayne, Pocket U.K. (IPG, dist.), $9.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-84739-357-9
What starts out as a typical ghost story becomes something much richer and deeper in a psychological thriller that should win Rayne (Ghost Song) a wider readership in the U.S. Soon after English novelist Theo Kendall moves into the isolated Norfolk...
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Sarah Rayne. Felony & Mayhem (www.felonyandmayhem.com), $14.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-934609-80-4
British author Rayne (Tower of Silence) makes her U.S. debut with an intriguing if flawed psychological thriller involving conjoined twins. A bitter divorce has left London reporter Harry Fitzglen hard up and cost him his job in "the upper echelons...
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Sarah Rayne. Severn House, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8028-4
A gnarled haunted house story spanning centuries makes a promising supernatural venture by crime fiction author Rayne (What Lies Beneath). Literature professor Michael Flint pays a visit to a crumbling old house recently inherited by his friends the
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8162-5
Rayne follows Property of a Lady with another strong take on classic ghost stories. Once again, antiques dealer Nell West and her paramour, Oxford don Michael Flint, are drawn into a haunted house investigation when Nell is hired by Benedict Doyle...
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Sarah Rayne. Felony & Mayhem (www.felonyandmayhem.com), $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-937384-10-4
Powerful atmospherics compensate for plot contrivances in Rayne's period thriller, which centers on a London music hall whose story unfolds as the narrative toggles between 1914 and "the present." When Robert Fallon is hired to inspect the Tarleton...
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8248-6
Rayne continues to mix eerie hauntings and witty protagonists in her enjoyable third neogothic mystery (after The Sin Eater) starring widowed antiques dealer Nell West and her paramour, university professor and children’s book author Michael Flint....
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8363-6
Rayne’s fourth Flint and West ghost story (after The Silence) is another entertaining and largely standalone haunted house tale. While Oxford professor Michael Flint reads through old journals at remote Fosse House for a music history work he’s...
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Sarah Rayne. Felony & Mayhem, $14.95 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-1-937384-67-8
Rayne (Ghost Song) grips the reader from the opening sentence: "Ella Haywood was in the delicatessen counter queue at the supermarket when she heard the news that ripped open her life and brought her childhood nightmares gibbering back." More than...
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8471-8
The very accessible fifth novel in Rayne's neo-gothic haunted house series (after What Lies Beneath) hits highs in plot and writing, with a well-balanced mix of emotions including humor, poignancy, and the macabre. When Oxford professor and children'
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8559-3
In Rayne's middling sixth Haunted House mystery (after 2015's Deadlight Hall), Oxford professor Michael Flint and antiques dealer Nell West attend the revival of a festival known as St. Benedict's Revels in the Dorset village of Rede Abbas. All that
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8660-6
London music researcher Phineas Fox, the hero of this enjoyable contemporary series launch from Rayne (What Lies Beneath), reluctantly agrees to prepare a TV documentary on Roman Volf, a Russian violinist accused of assassinating Czar Alexander II....
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8741-2
In British author Rayne’s engrossing second mystery featuring London music researcher Phineas Fox (after Death Notes), Phin agrees to help his neighbor, Toby Tallis, search for Arabella Tallis, Toby’s cousin, after she fails to show up one evening...
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8814-3
Rayne’s entertaining third outing for London-based musicologist Phineas Fox (after 2017’s Chord of Evil) takes Phin and his friend Arabella Tallis to Cresacre School, formerly Cresacre Convent. Arabella is helping to plan a celebration of the school’
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8988-1
At the start of Rayne’s haunting fifth Phineas Fox mystery (after 2019’s Music Macabre), two scholars ask London musicologist Phineas Fox and his lover, Arabella Tallis, to authenticate a scrapbook recovered from a building site in Warsaw, Poland,...
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5012-6
Rayne’s lively sixth Phineas Fox mystery (after 2021’s The Devil’s Harmony) takes London musicologist Phineas to a Norfolk village, where his sweetheart, Arabella Tallis, has agreed to take on the role of publicist for a proposed swish restaurant in
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Sarah Rayne. Severn, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0640-4
Set in 1908 England, this superb series launch from Rayne (the Phineas Fox mysteries) introduces charming actor Jack Fitzglen, who enlists the help of his extended family of “society burglars” in a “filch.” Jack plans to secure the Talisman Chalice,
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