Moving from Brighton to the Sussex countryside might sound idyllic..
There is someone else not happy that this new family are moving in to Cold Hill House. Those who already live there…..unseen.

Imagine the biggest, darkest and most mysterious house in the countryside you could ever think of. Old houses always have some kind of creaking floorboards, maybe the noise of birds or bugs in the eaves and a range of creatures in the fields outside. Some might even have a resident ghost or two and sometimes they are very possessive of who and may be welcomed in their home.

What makes it all the more chilling is the fact that the house is so run down that Ollie and his family have to live in what is practically a building site. There is one thing after another which goes wrong and from the first thing happening, most people would probably be making a run for it, for this is no rural idyll.

There is something very cold, very cold indeed about Cold Hill House and the house stands like a ghost of its former self. If the wind howls while you read this book, be sure that they are the ghost of the past trying to tell you the secrets of that big old stone building you now call home. Try phoning for help, try Facetime and you’ll not see the image of the person you’re expecting to see…

I really enjoyed this ghost story as it was more than just the usual clanging and banging in a big old house. When messages and images start appearing on smart phones, I'm not sure if this was my vivid imagination but I felt this could really happen and really would be scary.

I've read an interview on the WHsmith blog where Peter says he based the story on an old house he and his former wife bought and lived in once. Blimey that must have been one heck of an experience if even 1% true!

Best get Roy Grace in to sort them out.