Prophecy

by Peter James

Overview

A game that turns to a nightmare ...

Non Omnis Moriar
I shall not altogether die

A young boy watches his mother die. A sadistic man dies in agony. Drunk students play with a Ouija board in a damp cellar. Can bricks and mortar retain imprints of the emotions experienced within them?

Frannie is delighted when a chance meeting with a handsome man and his son leads to a romance. The fact that the relationship is marred by gruesome tragedies, she dismisses as an unsettling coincidence. But eventually she can no longer ignore the fact that she is the only thing linking these horrible events. Is it a murderous practical joke?

Or worse...?

'James just gets better and better' Independent on Sunday

'Britain's answer to Stephen King and Michael Crichton.' Sunday Telegraph

Read more from the multi-million copy bestselling author of the Roy Grace novels:

Possession
Dreamer
Sweet Heart
Twilight
Prophecy
Host
Alchemist
Denial
The Truth
Faith

* Each Peter James novel can be read as a standalone*

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409133452
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	11/04/2010
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	928,140
File size:	794 KB

About the Author

Peter James is a UK No. 1 bestselling author, best known for writing crime and thriller novels, and the creator of the much-loved Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. With a total of 13 Sunday Times No. 1s under his belt, he has achieved global book sales of over 19 million copies to date, and has been translated into 37 languages.
Synonymous with plot-twisting page-turners, Peter has garnered an army of loyal fans throughout his storytelling career - which also included stints writing for TV and producing films. He has won over 40 awards for his work, including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger. Many of Peter's novels have been adapted for film, TV and stage.

Editorial Reviews

Horror novelist James ( Twilight ) slowly reveals the connections between a 17th-century necromancer, an archeologist, an actuary, the number 26, a series of horrific accidents and a Ouija session in this complex tale of evil. British museum archeologist Francesca Monsanto meets actuary Oliver Halkin and his son, Edward, at a train station. Unbeknownst to either of them, Oliver, the 24th Marquess of Sherfield, stepped into Francesca's parents' sandwich shop on March 26, 1988, minutes before his wife was hit by a truck and decapitated. Coincidentally, the shop was built on the site of the original London residence of the Halkin family, where, on March 26, 1652, Francis Halkin, second Marquess of Sherfield (who was a necromancer, child-rapist and murderer), was executed by Parliamentary soldiers. In the present day, a romance ensues between Francesca and Oliver. Meanwhile, an eerie series of tragic coincidences begins to afflict the participants in a Ouija game organized by Francesca in 1988. The shocking ending of the work is neatly related to the motto carved on the Halkin family crest: Non Omnis Moriar , I shall not altogether die. ( Mar. )

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

British Museum archaeologist Frannie Monsanto meets widowed mathematician Oliver Halkin. As they become involved, Frannie grows concerned about the odd behavior of Oliver's son, Edward. Strange links appear between Frannie's family history and that of Oliver's noble forebears while, simultaneously, a series of tragedies strikes down too many of both Frannie's college friends and Oliver's family. Edward gradually becomes the apparent focus of the dreadful events at the Halkins' ancestral castle and in London, and as calamities continue, it is disclosed that the ghost of Oliver's seventeenth-century ancestor, the second marquess of Sherfield, is exerting baleful influence on events. Finally, Frannie returns to her childhood origins--geographical and spiritual--to lay the ghost to rest. James is touted as Britain's Stephen King, and this story of arcane horror amid everyday lives and landscapes fosters the comparison.

Dennis Winters