Of Time and Dust — Steven Savile; Steve Lockley

The first in the brand new series of Sally Reardon Supernatural mysteries, written by bestselling novelist Steven Savile and his award-winning co-writer Steve Lockley.



A once-beautiful country mansion in historical Dorchester, provides the backdrop to a haunting novelette. One suicide is a tragedy, two an unfortunate coincidence, but three is a problem for police forensic investigator Sally Reardon. Can she solve the mystery of Birkin House before she becomes the fourth?





FROM THE AUTHORS



The Sally Reardon Supernatural Mysteries are intended to be a series experience with new installments coming out fairly regularly, each one hopefully developing and adding on from the ideas in the one before. We thought it'd be fun to build a series in the same way we would a TV show with linked but separate stories that come together to feed a bigger overall series arc.



In keeping with that we made a conscious decision to make them something you could read in a single sitting, just like one of those TV shows you'd sit and watch in a 45 minute block. These aren't novels, they're novelettes, which means they run around 12,000-15,000 words, or about 30 minutes reading at the speed we read.



We set out to write something fans of shows we enjoyed, things like Medium and Afterlife, would enjoy, with the emphasis on the supernatural but very deliberately away from anything horrific.



The series continues in MISSING, DEADLINES and OUT OF SEASON.