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"The dark figure in the doorway wasn't smiling!”

A thrilling mystery set in two time zones that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Sebastian Carmichael is one of the world’s great concert pianists, but he feels a new life awaits him when the strain of performing becomes too much.

A trip to the countryside sees him take on the challenge of a run down property in Lincolnshire, a disused bakery, and he cannot wait to get to grips with renovating the sadly neglected building. However, it seems he is not the only occupant and is forced to come to terms with some unwelcome guests.

The past meets the present as he struggles to make his new found venture a success, particularly when he finds a new love, the mysterious Briony.

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Another Awesome Horror Story from Raymond Hall

I’ve read a few of Raymond M Hall’s other books, including The Hanged Man and In the Shadow of the Reaper. He’s a great storyteller of intriguing paranormal fiction. I like the way he can take normal snippets of life (Like the idea of a professional pianist buying a bakery to refurbish and getting mixed up with a mysterious, alluring woman) and inject them with a sense of the macabre. If you like the thoughtfulness of John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany) and the master horror storytelling of Steven King (especially his short stories) you’ll like The Haunting.

Length: 365 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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"The dark figure in the doorway wasn't smiling!”

A thrilling mystery set in two time zones that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Sebastian Carmichael is one of the world’s great concert pianists, but he feels a new life awaits him when the strain of performing becomes too much.

The past meets the present as he struggles to make his new found venture a success, particularly when he finds a new love, the mysterious Briony.

Pick up this page turner Today!

Read "The Haunting" for FREE with your Kindle Unlimited Subscription and look for it under Mystery, Thriller & Suspense.

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Another Awesome Horror Story from Raymond Hall

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Print Length: 365 pages
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Language: English
ASIN: B06XYHN49X
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #297,389 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #995 in Ghost Horror (Kindle Store)
- #17892 in Paranormal Romance (Books)
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19 July 2017

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The Haunting is a brilliantly written book by an incredibly talented writer. This book kept enthralled and guessing until the last page. I highly recommend this read for anyone who appreciates an entertaining book written by a talented author.

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4 September 2017

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A dynamic love story crisscrossing both time and being. An extremely well written novel which will appeal to a broad range of people. A big thumbs up!

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‘The dark figure in the bakery doorway wasn’t smiling.’

11 November 2017

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Australian author Raymond M Hall, born in Essex, England and lived in Mistley, and spent his evolving career in various occupations including the police force. He now lives and writes in New South Wales, Australia.

Raymond writes with a style that demands admiration and commands our attention. The manner in which he blends bifurcated time frames and characters places the story of success and career changes and love stories into the realm of the paranormal - and for a story with the title ‘The Haunting’ this approach works very well.

One of Raymond’s many strong attributes as a writer is the manner in which he sculpts his characters. Of the several important characters in this book, note how he introduces Sebastian: ‘Sebastian needed an interest, something to take his mind off music altogether. Relaxing once again into travel mode, he mulled over the things he was capable of and settled on a past hobby he had as a teenager. His father had been a builder with not one musical bone in his body, and mother was a beautiful woman, but again no musical talent. Sebastian had no idea where his musical ability derived, perhaps some distant antecedent? His parents had been killed together in a road accident over twenty years before, just when his career was hitting the heights. He remembered helping his father when he was younger and enjoyed spending time around building sites, especially renovation projects. He thought at one time he would follow in his father’s footsteps, but that was before his old music teacher had realised the hidden talent he possessed in his fingers. A scholarship had developed, and things had progressed rapidly. He had won just about every award that was winnable and held honorary degrees from music colleges worldwide.’

But for a very brief summary of this long book the following synopsis captures highlights – ‘Sebastian Carmichael is one of the world's greatest concert pianists, but he feels a new life awaits him when the strain of performing becomes too much. A trip to the countryside sees him take on the challenge of a run down property in Lincolnshire, a disused bakery, and he can't wait to get to grips with renovating the sadly neglected building. However, it seems he is not the only occupant and is forced to come to terms with his unwelcome guests. The past meets the present as he struggles to make his new found venture a success, particularly when he encounters a new love, the mysterious Briony.’

Tremendously satisfying writing and character/time interplay make this a book to treasure. Think Poe, Doyle, King…Grady Harp, November 17

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David Styles

Unpolished, but very enjoyable read.

7 July 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This story is creative and imaginative, and with a dark flair of the kind that could see it recreated as a Tim Burton film.

The story flows well — I disagree with other reviewers who’ve opined to the contrary — and takes the reader along for an engaging and captivating ride.

In the category of criticism, as I do try to include positive and negative in reviews, the book does read a lot like a first effort, though from the publication dates of Hall’s books, it would appear that it’s not. Characters often commit the rookie error of doing an “exposition dump” when interacting, which often marks an author’s early efforts; almost every time a character meets another, at least one of them has the irrepressible urge to get something off their chest, often including confessing crimes to anyone who will listen.

The dialogue, initially, I thought was written in a very stilted fashion; I came to realize though that actually it’s not — what causes this effect is the punctuation and capitalization system being used, which is rather non-standard: in this book, speech always gets a new line even if it occurs mid-sentence and/or dialogue markers break up dialogue, and he uses capitalization after speech even if it’s not the start of a sentence:

He replied to her,
“Yes, here’s the reply,” He said,
“And here’s the second part of the same sentence.” He concluded.

This results in a strangely broken feel to a lot of the dialogue that otherwise would have read very smoothly, I’m sure. That said, less the exposition-dumping and the strange dialogue formatting, the book is an enjoyable and involving story with dark twists and excellent creative thinking.

I look forward to Hall’s future work, since clearly it could be great with just a little polish.

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John H. Manhold

Interestingly characterized and plotted paranormal romance.

5 October 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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The Haunting, a paranormal romance in e-book published, copyright and written by Raymond M. Hall.
Plot: Sebastian Carmichael, one of the world’s foremost pianists apparently had recovered from a spectacular collapse during a concert. He decided he wanted nothing more than to find some way of life different than that he had been living. Thus mentally engaged, he was driving north from London along the motorway when suddenly he saw police lights flashing behind him. He looked at the speedometer and with a shock realized he was cruising along at one hundred thirty. Fortunately, one of the officers who stopped him was a classical buff and let him go with a warning. He continued and finally decided on following a teen-age hobby. His father, killed in a road accident along with his mother twenty years ago, had a construction business and the youngster had spent many hours around building sites. In fact he had expected to emulate his father until a music teacher had recognized his talent and had suggested scholarships that lead to rather rapid advancement into his elevated state as a musician of distinction. Now decided, and having reached the flat Lincolnshire fields, he pulled off at a ramp to Upper Marston. Wandering through the quaint village he noticed one with properties for sale. He entered, engaged the agent in small talk until the man obviously was ready to leave. He asked about an Inn. Was recommended to The Nags Head and offered to buy the agent dinner and share a bottle of wine deciding that he already loved the general atmosphere and wanted to continue to learn more. He needed to expand the relaxation that rapidly was growing upon him. The evening was enjoyable and the next day, he returned to look at the properties available. He was completely tired of the years of constant planning and rigid execution required for his busy concert schedule where his life had become so completely directed, he had no time for marriage or even for real enjoyment. He even had contemplated killing himself. Now he was completely free to do what he wanted when he wanted to, he still was young and had ‘buckets of money’, so why not act impetuously? He looked at many but none that would provide anything for him to do. And he wanted to actively return to his youthful roots of building something. Finally, he saw a broken down bakery that had been deserted for years. The agent told him it had been on the market so long because it was shunned because it purportedly was haunted. Not believing in such things he bought the property and began completely gutting and rebuilding at a sizeable, but acceptable, jolt to his bank account.
The story next quickly turns to Seth Bishop, and his sons Luke and Tom, the original owners of the bakery in the 1700’s, Luke’s marriage to Bethany Abnett, a gypsy girl whom he completely adores, and their resulting fate from Cromwell’s harsh attempts to abolish all of the Roma. From this point forward, the reader repeatedly is moved intermittently among these and numerous other characters of the era and Sebastian’s activities, his willful sister Caroline, Briody, a beautiful woman under whose charm he falls completely, and more. The people of the ancient era, as well as the present, are both very good and very bad, and many often appear to be a part of the strange occurrences constantly besetting Sebastian’s newly acquired home.
Discussion: It would be distinctly a disfavor to provide further details to prospective readers of this paranormal tale peopled with quite a number of interesting characters that mostly the reader can love or hate. Further, the author has placed them in a plot that progresses at a lively, although somewhat uneven pace. (Actually the tale provides several interwoven tales.) However, paranormal devotees should enjoy the story and especially so when the final ‘fitting together’ of much of material, although probably already suspected by the reader, is not fully ‘spelled out’ until the final few pages.

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‘The dark figure in the bakery doorway wasn’t smiling.’

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