The First Last

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL… A reality documentary crew is on the hunt for a victim. An unsolved murder from the 1970s that could leave the authorities red-faced. Celebrity criminologist Professor Simeon Freud plans to bask in the glory.

Posing as a researcher, DS Jones joins the production team, but Skelgill must work in the shadows. His instincts rebel – not least that his protégé is prey to a narcissist on the one hand and a killer on the other.

As evidence mounts, his unease grows: is there an altogether more sinister explanation, a cover-up that will not just embarrass the police force, but shake its very foundations?

And will Skelgill get there first?

BRUCE BECKHAM is an award-winning author and copywriter. A resident of Great Britain, he has travelled and worked in over 60 countries. He is published in both fiction and non-fiction, and is a member of the UK Society of Authors.

His series ‘Inspector Skelgill Investigates’ features the recalcitrant Cumbrian detective Daniel Skelgill, and his loyal lieutenants, long-suffering Londoner DS Leyton and local high-flyer DS Emma Jones.

Set amidst the ancient landscapes of England’s Lake District, this expanding series of standalone murder mysteries has won acclaim across five continents, with over 1 million copies downloaded, from Australia to Japan and India, and from Brazil to Canada and the United States of America.

It was supposed to be one night to feel alive after getting out of a dud of a relationship. Now I’m having a baby, and I only have the soon-to-be dad’s first name.

After my breakup, I need to find a job and place to live, but I can’t move into the house my grandma left me unless I’m married. Fortunately, the guy renting the place doesn’t know that, so I stop by and find out if he can move at the end of his lease.

Only when the door opens, it’s him. My one-night stand. I do the only reasonable thing possible. I tell him we’re going to have a baby and promptly puke over the railing of the porch. Next thing I know, I’m on his couch, and he’s demanding a paternity test.

Except he doesn’t just want the test. He wants to make sure I don’t tamper with the results. He doesn’t believe me. Apparently showing up jobless and homeless to persuade him to move doesn’t make me trustworthy. Guess I’m not the only one with a dating history that leaves me jaded.

He insists I stay in the house that should be mine, right where he can monitor me. And the longer I’m around him, the more I can see that below his gruff exterior is a softie who planted acres of pumpkins for his cousin. A guy who wants to reconnect with his family. A man who makes me want to be more to him than violet promises.

A secret bunker. A sinister darkness. Can Dan Tracy put the pieces together before the whole world is lost?

On a family trip to a disused Cold War bunker, Dan Tracy’s family gets caught up in life threatening events which have cast a sudden and terrible darkness over the surface of the planet.

All known life has been put to sleep, causing havoc throughout the world as planes drop from the skies, vehicles career off the road and governments seem powerless to intervene.

24 hours after the darkness descends, the bunker undergoes a massive transformation and it emerges that the dusty old tunnels form a state-of-the-art operations centre that has been hiding in open view for many decades – but its present-day purpose is unclear.

Dan soon realises that he and his family are part of something bigger than they could ever have imagined and the world is in perilous danger from a malevolent organisation based on earth and intent on destroying the planet.

If you like fast-paced apocalyptic action, captivating characters, and stories that keep you reading all night long, then you’ll love Paul Teague’s Secret Bunker Trilogy.

There was no entrance to Hell when Satan was cast down.
So he tore one through the Earth on the way.

“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
Luke 10:18

The impact left scars in the fabric of the world. Some places never healed.

Inspired in part by true events, Hole in the Hallway is a terrifying supernatural horror novel that blends haunted house terror, demonic possession, and biblical evil into a relentless descent into darkness.

In the early 1980s, a young family moves into a quiet home perched on a remote island off the Atlantic coast. Surrounded by ocean and isolation, the house appears peaceful. Solid. Safe. But something ancient lies buried beneath it. Something that has been watching for a very long time.

The children sense it first. Whispers inside the walls. Shadows that move when no one is there. A presence lurking just beyond sight. The adults dismiss it as imagination until violence erupts and denial is no longer possible.

As the body count rises and the boundary between worlds begins to tear, the family uncovers a horrifying truth. Their land sits on a place of spiritual rupture. A wound carved into the Earth when something fell from Heaven and continued downward into the depths. This is not a simple haunting. It is a battleground.

Evil does not knock. It enters.

Hole in the Hallway is the first book in a two-part supernatural horror saga, followed by Goliath’s Bane, where the full scope of the evil is revealed and the cost of survival becomes clear.

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