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The Demons of Ghent
The Demons of Ghent
Oct 7, 2024 8:29 AM

Author:Helen Grant

The Demons of Ghent

Veerle has moved to Ghent to start a new life with her father and his girlfriend, she's isolated and alone. But not as alone as she had thought . . .

Veerle recognises a familiar face in the crowds one day, a face connected to a past that she has been fighting to get over, a past that involved murder.

A spate of deaths hit the city but has Death followed Veerle to Ghent or is this something new?

Reviews

Dark, atmospheric writing . . . briliantly controlled tension'

—— Daily Mail

The perfect book . . . heart-stoppingly scary

—— Bookwitch

Captivating from the first page . . . [Grant] is a first-class storyteller, and her books are thrillers that actually thrill

—— Young Post

Make[s] the kind of breathtaking journey I wanted to begin again the moment I'd finished

—— Awfully Big Reviews

Fans of Grey's work will once again relish the hectic pace of her storytelling, its humour, its intertextual allusions, its typographical playfulness and its general layout.

—— Robert Dunbar , Irish Times

Mini Grey's extra details and clues in her artwork are always so entertaining and hopefully this is just the beginning for this charming and astute mouse and his detecting friend Emily.

—— The Guardian

It's full of hilarious tiny details, which our sharp-eyed hero - and clever parents and children - can spot to solve the mysteries.

—— The Oxford Times

This is picture book storytelling at its best. Text and illustration perfectly integrated so that the eye moves easily across the page and the attention is held. Every page is carefully designed allowing different perspectives, creating excitement and movement through the juxtaposition of whole page and split page spreads as well as techniques adopted from graphic novel or film. There are not enough picture books that can reach older children. This is one - and it is a delight.

—— Books for Keeps

This is an utterly delightful book, packed with quirky text and illustrations and reall unusual.

—— Parents in Touch

How can you not want to read this book over and over again? How can you not want to share it with everyone you meet?

—— Xena's Mom , Librarian's Quest

Mini Grey is as skilful as ever as she unravels a complex, tragic and very funny story through action-packed illustrations, captions and speech bubbles.

—— Guardian Review

A gentle, entertaining story.

—— Daily Mail

A Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year—and it's an "Outstanding Merit" title!

—— Bank Street College of Education , The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2015 Edition

The pace is relentless

—— Heat

Action-packed.

—— MTV.com

A cut above anything else in the genre

—— Sunday Telegraph

Borrow this one from your teen's nightstand while they're at school

—— People Magazine

A cut above anything else in the genre

—— Sunday Telegraph

Borrow this one from your teen's nightstand while they're at school

—— People Magazine
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