'The Magpie Murders' by Anthony Horowitz

Watching an adaptation rather than reading the book always feels like cheating, but sometimes I can't resist.  There are just too many great stories out there and so many different ways to tell them well.  Besides, when the screenwriter is Anthony Horowitz and he's adapting his own novel, 'Magpie Murders', you know you're in safe hands.  Or as safe as they can be when there's a villain on the loose...

'The Stranger Times' by CK McDonnell

Do you believe in ghosts?  Monsters?  Things that go bump in the night?  Well, they exist - in the pages of fiction at least!  And many make appearances in the comic novel 'The Stranger Times' by CK McDonnell.