Mean Spirit

Hailed as the British alternative to the X-Files, Will Kingdom's paranormal thrillers combine crime and the supernatural to electrifying effect.

Who is stalking Seffi Callard, the world's most glamorous spiritual medium – and from which side of the grave? Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, Seffi has been forced to retreat from the glow of public adulation and now lives as a paranoid recluse at her father's home in the Cotswolds. Her old mentor, Marcus Bacton, editor of an obscure journal of the paranormal, sends his American assistant Grayle Underhill to try to establish the truth – unaware that he's thrusting them both into a nightmare. Along with Bobby Maiden, the police detective whose approach to his job has been changed forever by a near-death experience, they find themselves in the path of a vicious career-criminal for whom being rich is less important than never being dead.