In just over 5 weeks, the 3rd and final instalment of my Belfast Ghosts series will be released. This is my first trilogy of standalone novels. They’re all related only in theme, but feature different characters and are set in different parts of Belfast. With just over a month to go, I thought I’d show you the similarities and differences between each of the three novels:
Similarities:
1. All feature ghosts (of some description…)
2. All are set in Belfast
Differences:
1. Book 1 is a first person novel, whereas Books 2 and 3 are in third person
2. Books 1 and 2 feature female main characters whereas Book 3 features a man.
What are they about?
Book 1 – The Blue Man: A haunted friendship across the decades
Two best friends. An urban legend. A sinister curse.
Twenty years ago teenage friends, Megan and Sabrina, destroyed their friendship after learning the terrifying Irish urban legend of the Blue Man and unleashing a sinister force into their lives. Now, as mothers-to-be, they reunite once more to confront the horror and trauma. Could they finally bury the past and change the fate of their families?
Book 2 – The Fairy Lights: The ghost of Christmas that never was
When Aisling moves into an old Edwardian house, she soon realises her student digs are haunted by a ghost known locally as Jimbo. As yuletide approaches, she uses the fairy lights to attract Jimbo and with the help of a local psychic and friends from her university course, seeks to uncover dark, buried truths. But what will the spirit world reveal about her own past?
Book 3 – Matthew’s Twin: The spirit of medieval vengeance made flesh
Around the time Custom’s Inspector, Matthew, began having crippling stomach pains, he began witnessing visions of a past life in medieval Northern Ireland during Edward Bruce’s invasion. After an operation to remove what he thought to be a tumour from his stomach, a mysterious man arrived to cause chaos in Matthew’s life. What did the stranger have to do with malign forces from a dark, medieval past? Could Matthew find out about a seven hundred year injustice before the ghosts came to wreak vengeance on him in the present?
Leilanie Stewart 