Mary Monster

Manchester, 1976. A small boy finds a body in an alley behind a legendary music hall. Forty-one years later, he hears reports of another murder, the victim covered in the same ritualistic markings. Is it the work of a cult? A coincidence? Or is Otis Oliver's memory simply playing tricks on him? His investigation leads him away from his comfortable life into a world ruled by a woman he will come to know as Mary Shelley. And soon he will find himself in the middle of an immortal conflict between Mary and her stepsister, the devilish Claire Clairmont.

Mary Monster is not a book for everyone. It's a mashup of Gothic horror and noir mystery, riddled with hundreds of references to Romantic poetry and New Wave music. It's populated by pop idols and undead artists. And it's written in a purposefully artificial mashup of Mancunian, Manhattan and Elizabethan slang. But for a select group of readers, this is the first book in a series of supernatural thrillers that will blow you away. It's simply one of a kind.