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A body marked for sacrifice. A secret society in the shadows. And a former soldier who can’t walk away. On the fog-drenched moors of Exmoor, Lorne Turner finds a man’s body aligned to the stars, carved with occult sigils and posed like an offering. The police write it off as biker gang violence. Lorne knows better. The evidence points in impossible directions: towards a secret fraternity and an old darkness stirring beneath the moor. As Lorne pushes for answers, he finds himself circling The Gnostic Dawn, a hidden order tied to power, privilege, and a force older than faith itself. But the ritual has far-reaching consequences. For Lorne, shadows move where they shouldn’t. Voices whisper in the cold air. And he can no longer tell whether the darkness on Exmoor is born of his own trauma, or if it’s the evil The Gnostic Dawn has awoken. With the help of village vicar Ella Morgan and witch Willow Hunter, Lorne must stop the next sacrifice before the darkness spreading across Exmoor demands another victim. Counting Crows is the first book in the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers series: a dark British supernatural crime thriller set on the mist-drenched moors of Exmoor. Perfect for readers of Merrily Watkins and Rivers of London. “This is a truly gripping page-turner of a novel that left me seriously looking forward to the next book.” From the Occult Detective Magazine _______________________________________________________ Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers: ★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.” ★★★★★ “I loved the building suspense… and the air of the supernatural.” ★★★★★ “I was locked in and couldn’t put it down.” ★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.” ★★★★★ “The supernatural parts are well entwined with ‘real’ life.” ★★★★★ “Great characters and a fast-moving story with lots of twists and turns.” ★★★★★ “The writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric.” ★★★★★ “Fast paced, but not shallow!” ★★★★★ “Loved the building suspense, the flawed humanity of the characters and the air of the supernatural.” ★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…” ★★★★★ “Takes you on a tour of the old world while keeping you guessing and on the edge of your seats.”

Three hundred years ago, a village burned its own to keep the Devil away. Now, the Devil wants what’s left.When former SAS soldier Lorne Turner takes a job protecting a renovation project in the cursed village of Scob, he expects vandals and trespassers—not ghosts. But something ancient is stirring beneath The Rectory’s charred foundations. Figures shift in the shadows, screams echo through the night, and the walls seem to bleed grief. Rain swells the river, and old ground begins to move.As Lorne digs deeper, he uncovers the tragic secret of Efa and Charles Donne, lovers executed in 1685, and the curse that has haunted the Prescott bloodline ever since. Felix Prescott, a ruthless developer obsessed with breaking the curse, believes he can rewrite his fate, whatever the cost.Haunted by his own war-born demons, Lorne finds the line between the living and the dead collapsing fast. As the fires of the past flare again, he and Ella, the village vicar, must face both human evil and something far older, something that remembers every scream from the night Scob burned.Money for Old Bones is the second book in the Lorne Turner supernatural thrillers series, where cursed history clashes with modern crimes and the ghosts we carry inside. Perfect for readers of Merrily Watkins and Rivers of London.______________________________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “I was locked in and couldn’t put it down.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Reminiscent of Merrily Watkins… I’ve immediately purchased the third.”★★★★★ “Fast paced and gripping, combining the supernatural with suspense.”★★★★★ “Lorne Turner is once again caught up in an old crime that haunts the present.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”★★★★★ “Really enjoyed this book—a real page turner.”★★★★★ “The atmosphere was creepy and had me looking over my shoulder.”★★★★★ “Edge of your seat story!”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “A possibly haunted house and some very mean people.”★★★★★ “Definitely a winner… chilling all the same.”★★★★★ “The atmosphere is a part of the story with passages like, ‘I watched the dusk leak down the steep hillsides”

The moor keeps its secrets. Some lie in graves. Others wait in the dark beneath the ruins of Project Winter Sun.Peggy Cole’s murder should have ended with the body. Instead, it opened a door into the past— a forgotten sister, a Soviet scientist who defected during the Berlin blockade, and a hospital that vanished from the records, but not from memory. Its ruins still hum with sorrow and rage.Drawn into the mystery, Lorne Turner confronts echoes of a Cold War nightmare: experiments that sought to erase trauma by erasing the soul. The victims, soldiers and one lost and lonely child, were left broken, their memories weaponised in the name of control. Their agony lingers in the earth, feeding a darkness that still hungers.Haunted by war and shadowed by the djinn that shares his mind, Lorne is torn between madness and revelation. His visions reveal the dead reaching out from the ruins, pleading for release, demanding justice. But as the lines between science and sorcery blur, so too do the lines between saviour and monster.Dead of the Winter Sun is book three in the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers. A chilling, deeply human tale of inherited trauma, buried sins, and the ghosts that rise when we tamper with the mind’s deepest wounds. Perfect for readers of Merrily Watkins and Rivers of London._______________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…”★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”

A boy vanishes in the Quantock Hills. Old ground stirs.Lorne Turner has made peace with his life, learning to live with the whispering dead. Then a friend calls, seeking help for a Romani camp in Somerset’s Quantock Hills. A child is missing. The police are not welcome. They want an old soldier to bring their boy home.Lorne, Heather and Ella, the village vicar, track the trail over burial mounds and wind-cut ridges, where small offerings appear in the heather and doors close to outsiders. But modern shadows complicate the search: Hinkley Point’s nuclear plant with its security cordons and floodlit perimeter; and a former policeman with his own agenda.The deeper Lorne digs, the more the case eerily echoes the loss of his childhood friend. Thirty years have not dimmed the fear that some hills keep what they take.Salt for the Devil’s Eye is book four in the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers, set across Exmoor and the Quantocks, where ancient rites collide with modern crime. Expect fast-moving investigations through hillfort ruins and night-cold lanes, uneasy camps and a landscape that will not give up its secrets.__________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…” ★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”

The water remembers. It remembers every offering, every death, every prayer left unanswered.Long before the Norman conquest, a river god ruled the valley of Syndercombe—a spirit of blessing and blood, sustained by devotion. When the Christians came, they built churches and walled the old god away. But gods don’t die; they wait.Centuries later, the valley was drowned to build a reservoir, burying its church, its graves, and the restless war between faiths. Now, as drought cracks the land and bodies rise from the depths, something ancient has awoken.Lorne Turner, scarred soldier and reluctant seer, comes to investigate the violence that follows—a rash of possessions, drownings, and madness. What he finds is a feud older than history: a vengeful pagan deity and the spirit of the Norman knight who sought to bind it. Caught between their struggle, Lorne, Heather, and Ella are drawn into a maelstrom of grief and fury that threatens to consume them all.Each haunting stirs the war he carries inside. To save the living, Lorne must face the beast behind his eyes and learn why bad waters run deepest where the human heart breaks.Bad Waters Run Deep is book five in the Lorne Turner supernatural mystery thrillers—an atmospheric, soul-dark thriller of ancient faith, broken families, and the ghosts of wars that never end._____________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…” ★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…"

The wind turns on Exmoor’s edge. A holy spring speaks of danger.Lorne Turner and his team are called to Watchet when elderly parishioners report strange visitations at Saint Decuman’s healing well. The old stories say the saint protects his flock. Now the warnings feel urgent, and the town is listening.What begins at the churchyard spills into the streets. The Devil’s Mercenaries are pushing a new designer drug, and a cult calling itself the Watchers promises a different kind of high. The trail runs back to an old alchemist whose legacy refused to stay buried, and to hauntings that rise whenever the wrong hands stir the past.With Ella, the village vicar, and Heather at his side, Lorne follows the trail through harbour lanes and sea-wet churchyards, tracking bikers, converts, and the pipeline that links them. Every step shortens the fuse. The town feels ready to ignite, and Lorne knows exactly what pulling the trigger will cost.The Alchemist’s Corpse is book six in the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers, set in England across Exmoor and the Somerset coast, where saintly legends and alchemy collide with gangs and cults.____________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…”★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”

A dead artist’s cottage on the moor. Statues of a figure seen only in dreams.When the secretive Department of Paranormal Investigations calls in an old obligation, Lorne Turner has no choice but to answer. Ms Pilar Sanchez arrives with a box of photographs and secrets, and a simple instruction: clear any mystical or esoteric objects from a nearby cottage. The artist is dead. Her work is not.Inside, Lorne and Heather find canvases and carvings of something beautiful and wrong, a presence that follows sleepers into their dreams. The trail leads from the well in the garden to a hidden mine entrance where air moves like breath and the dark keeps its secrets.What waits below is not just a relic of the past. A woman, a cage, and a secret that should never have seen the light of day again, force Lorne to choose between compassion and containment. The choice he makes lights a fuse that runs straight toward the undeserving innocent.The Spirit Glass is book seven in the Lorne Turner supernatural thrillers, set in England around Exmoor’s hills and abandoned mines, where classified orders collide with old powers and modern crimes.________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…” ★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”

The dead have always whispered to Lorne Turner. Now they’re screaming.On the wild edge of Exmoor, a Syrian family’s new beginning is tainted by old ghosts. Their home, perched on Countisbury Hill, hides the resting place of pirates who once stole a sacred relic from Byzantium, a relic that should never have touched mortal hands.Pontius Pilate’s bowl—the vessel of denial, the antithesis to the Grail—has surfaced again. It promises power to those who believe, freedom to those who are cursed, and destruction to all who touch it.Across continents, faiths collide. The Vatican’s secret police move like shadows. Dominionist zealots declare a holy war. And Lorne Turner, haunted soldier and reluctant vessel of a djinn, finds himself trapped between human obsession and divine wrath.To protect those he loves, he must face the one truth his nightmares always warned him of: some absolutions are written in blood. Some relics wash away the world.The Dead Also Have Secrets is book eight in the Lorne Turner supernatural thrillers, and Joe Talon weaves together myth, trauma, and redemption in a darkly beautiful reckoning—where every ghost has a reason, and even the dead keep secrets._________________________________________________Praise for the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers:★★★★★ “An engaging supernatural mystery.”★★★★★ “The Exmoor landscape is equally important a character as the hero.”★★★★★ “Creepy supernatural thriller.”★★★★★ “Loads of surprises, the twists and turns kept you reading.”★★★★★ “The author’s style of writing is descriptive, suspenseful and atmospheric…”★★★★★ “Talon definitely knows how to put the creep in creepy…”★★★★★ “Harrowing Occult Thriller.”★★★★★ “Fast paced, twists, turns, spooks…”★★★★★ “It’s full of action with a heavy dose of suspense.”★★★★★ “This gem is filled with old graves, old bones, curses, darkness, love and loss…”

Two dead bodies under the same willow tree, twenty-five years a part. The only link, a series of poison pen letters, and the secrets hidden in the lonely soil of an old farm.Dale Valentine, ex-copper, ex-villain, is now a private detective. He's transplanted from South London to the heartlands of Somerset, and often feels like the locals keep their riddles in the sap of the apple trees. His job is to uncover the cruel truth, no matter the cost.When the letters expose the cold case of a murdered teenage boy, he desperately needs to find out more. That's when the second body shows up.The twisting links between a broken love, a dark secret and the damage to an old bull called Billy, start to unravel as Dale picks at the knots.With the help of Milly Wolfe and Detective Inspector Lauren Kennedy, he uncovers a tragic series of events and mysteries, hidden in the rural tapestry of Glastonbury.These secrets will destroy lives. But some skeletons have to be rooted out, no matter the consequences.A new crime series from the best-selling author of the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers.If you enjoyed novels like L.J. Ross's Holy Island, you'll also love this mystery-thriller set in the English countryside. Buy now before the price changes!Trigger warning: there are themes related to historical child abuse, but no graphic scenes of this nature takes place in the story.Reviews for For Whom the Willow Weeps"I've just finished this book... it was absolutely riveting! The story was so gripping I couldn't stop reading!" - C Thompson"If you enjoy detective stories with characters who are eternally flawed but whose actions are based on principled belief, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of this book and settle in for a very rewarding reading experience." - D Taylor"This is an intense, immersing read complete with a variety of crimes, characters and story lines. It was hard to put down once started and the pace kept the pages turning." - M PdsReviews for Joe Talon:"Talon's poetic use of metaphors is joyous and readers will no doubt become immersed, as I did..." - Number9 BlogSpot"Joe Talon is an author who is worth watching for the future because the big names in this genre have a new contender for the number 1 spot." - bookblogger.co"I enjoy Joe's style of writing and he never disappoints. Definitely recommend." - T Monk

A man who poisons minds. A young missing American. Mysterious holes on farmland about to be flooded. And three dead bodies.The call from Mr Wolski disturbs Dale. He understands a father’s concern for his missing daughter, but Wolski hovers on the side of obsession. His daughter, Joanna, vanished from Glastonbury almost a month ago. It’s the job of Valentine Investigations to find her.It should be easy to find a young woman with an American accent in rural Somerset.But no one has seen her, or heard from her.The more Dale and Milly uncover about Joanna Wolski, the more they worry about her safety.Then Detective Inspector Lauren Kennedy discovers one of her cold cases, and a fresh corpse, are linked to the same meditation group as Dale’s missing person.The killer’s calling card, a single black diamond, throws up more questions than answers.Does Glastonbury really have a serial killer in its midst?Who will be next?And where is Joanna Wolski?A new crime series from the best-selling author of the Lorne Turner Supernatural Thrillers.

"A smart, gritty read" - from L. Peterson"I’m really hooked on this series. It is so good, entertaining, suspenseful with twist. Joe Talon’s books are hard to put down." - from M. JanssensA call from an old friend fills Dale Valentine with dread the moment it ends. His past is coming to Glastonbury, and he’s not sure if he’s ready.As a professional investigator, he knows ex-convicts are rarely truthful if a lie keeps them out of trouble. This one is driven by panic.After all, what happens to hackers who discover government ministers are lying? Rarely anything good.As paranoia seeps through the rural town, Dale needs to uncover the real power behind the throne. A solar farm’s links to the politician weave a path through the ancient landscape to foreign powers that fill him with dread.When the politician dies, the lies start to fall apart and Dale finds himself at the heart of a dangerous game.Can Dale and one jaded police officer, save Glastonbury and a disreputable hacker, from big business corruption and greed?And if he can’t, who will become the sacrifice?

Welcome to Cornwall. Population: Mortal. Problem: Demonic.Griffin Woodbury thought his first solo case with the Department of Paranormal Investigations would be routine. Then the bodies start piling up at underground raves—victims of more than just drugs.With arcane symbols hidden in flyer art, minds unravelled by madness, and a seductive force luring partygoers to their doom, Griffin knows he’s not just chasing a killer—he’s chasing a… Well, what?Teaming up with his tech-whiz partner Sid and his sceptical police liaison—and cousin—Sergeant Megan Ackley, Griffin dives into a world where ancient magic meets modern menace. Clues point to Mephistopheles, an incubus manipulating online cults and digital glamour to spread chaos.Reality is bending. Time is running out. And if Griffin fails, the next rave won’t just bring bass drops—it’ll bring the apocalypse.From the bestselling occult horror writer, Joe Talon, this is first full-length novel in the new Griffin Woodbury Supernatural Detective series. Perfect for lovers of Stephen King’s, The Outsider.Dark magic. Digital footprints. One hell of a first case.