Great Grisly Hall
Charles Lea
Paperback
(Independently published, Nov. 27, 2018)
Eleven year old Primula Percy is not allowed to leave the tiny village of Little Grisly. In fact her Dad would just prefer her to play in the nearby pub car park. One day, during the Easter holidays, Prim meets three new children and, at last, she has someone to play with. Not long afterwards, they leave the village to explore and find an old stately home, seemingly empty, seemingly left to fall down by itself.However, unseen by Prim, there are residents lurking within the Hall and they are not too keen on her, with some wanting her dead.Prim meets a long lost family member in the Hall who explains that their family has a connection with the Hall, its curse and that there is a very real reason why the Hall is called "grisly".Prim is tasked with not only breaking the curse but also finding a magical chain, defeating a long dead old witch who has come back to find it plus avoid the spectre of the last Earl who rides the fields around Little Grisly seeking to take the souls of the living down to Hell with him.Scary, sad, funny and uplifting this is the first novel by Charles Lea