Beware! This House is Haunted

In a rain-sodden holiday cottage in Cornwall, two sets of offspring, brought together by a re-marriage, spar against each other until a series of threatening scrawls from beyond the grave unite them in dread. Eventually they confront the ghost, a malicious child still angry half a century after her death in a cycling accident. The living children eventually humanise her, but go a step too far in inviting the ghost's living siblings to a tea party. Slick shifts of pace and atmosphere, and a realistic backdrop to the supernatural theme, provide an entertaining and suspenseful read.