Doug Palmer was a sceptic when he came to The Finches to work on his Phd thesis but he is soon drawn into the world of a deceased schoolmaster and his pupils. The Finches has existed behind its high walls since the original convent on the site and so much of its dark history of ghosts and murder intrudes upon the present. Just what did happen on the site during the war and why does even time itself seem not to behave as it should? Doug can find no rest until he has sifted myth and illusion from reality and until he has peeled away the last layer of the onion and revealed The Finches Secret.

A collection of assorted mystery stories. Some are ghostly or supernatural in other ways while others relate to spies, assassins or deep secrets in ordinary families or individuals. Sit back and relax as you read these recollections, confessions and revelations.

Sometimes it is exhilarating to let the imagination off the leash and allow it to wander where it will. Most of these little tales explore in one way or another what is real and what is not. They include a view of the world from an angelic viewpoint, a disappearance which may or may not have supernatural origins and a physicist faced with the question of whether anything at all is truly real. Along the way we meet a spy who is forced to become a detective and we venture into mysterious other realities where the usual conventions of what is possible become stretched or even irrelevant. So make...