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I live in Oregon at the moment, though I hail from the UK. Growing up in a house overlooking a graveyard, on the edge of the bleak and foreboding Pennine Hills, seems to have instilled in me an obsession with all things dark and spooky. The complete Aveline Jones trilogy is available at all good bookstores and has been, or will be, translated into Spanish, German, Czech, French, Turkish, Polish and Russian. My latest effort is called Shadowhall Academy and follows the spooky adventures of the Aunt Lilian character from the Aveline books as a young girl in the 1980s. I also have a dyslexia-friendly ghost story coming out with Barrington Stoke at Halloween this year.

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	The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 5,954 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author) (Authors), Keith Robinson (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 2,518 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #3) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whispering Walls (Shadowhall Academy, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 386 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read, Scream, Repeat by Jennifer Killick, Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Kirsty Applebaum (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 164 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attic Toys by Jeremy C. Shipp (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe McKinney (Goodreads Author), Cate Gardner (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Story Society (Shadowhall Academy, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 121 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Day of October 3.85 avg rating — 79 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Aveline Jones (3 books)
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Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

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The Wine-Dark Sea

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