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The Boy in the Burgundy Hood: A Ghost Story (The Ghosts of Alice) Paperback – November 15, 2019

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***** ‘The perfect modern day ghost story with a grisly twist’
***** ‘Impossible to put down’
***** ‘Creepy and satisfying’
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***** ‘Too scared to sleep… extremely good book, I read it in one day!’
***** ‘Turn the screw it does, right up to its terrifyingly dark finale.’

Will it be her dream job – or a waking nightmare?

Alice Deaton can’t believe her luck when she lands a post at an ancient English manor house. Mired in debt, the elderly owners have transferred their beloved Bramley to a heritage trust. Alice must prepare it for opening to the public in the spring, with the former owners relegated to a private wing.

But when the ghosts start appearing - the woman with the wounded hand and the boy in the burgundy hood - Alice realises why her predecessor might have left the isolated house so soon.

As she peels back the layers of the mystery, the secrets Alice uncovers haunting Bramley’s heart will be dark – darker than she could ever have imagined...

** A #1 international bestseller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Michelle Paver, and Shani Struthers **

The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is the first standalone novel in The Ghosts of Alice series, about a young woman with a mysterious connection to the dead. The other books are The Girl in the Ivory Dress and Alice and the Devil.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (November 15, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 238 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1704542634
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1704542638
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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Steve Griffin is the author of fourteen books, known for his supernatural thrillers full of ‘twists and turns’ including the bestselling Ghosts of Alice series and The Man in the Woods. His latest book is Black Beacon, a chilling Christmas ghost story set on the snow-swept South Downs.

He has also written a fast-paced adventure mystery series for young adults, The Secret of the Tirthas. A Guardian review of the first book, The City of Light, calls it ‘entertaining and exciting’.

Steve loves exploring the Surrey Hills, where he lives with his wife and two sons. He also enjoys a good indie gig and is a lifelong fan of horror movies.

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Griffin has left a literary door open for more.
The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting and at times violent story. The descriptive passages are this author’s strength as he combines the backdrop of Bramley Manor with the playing out of the story. I was easily led into the story and allowed it to envelope me. Each room came into clear focus, catching every intricate detail along with bits of its history and clues. The gardens and surrounding grounds were just as detailed. I could almost feel the crispiness of autumn ending and winter nipping in. As I read, I became privy to Alice’s doubts and fears. I saw what she saw... including the ghosts. The ghost parts are descriptively creepy.The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting story with some horror added for good measure. It’s a stand alone book; but like all good authors, Griffin has left a literary door open for more. And me? I’ll be at that door waiting for the next one...you can count on it!
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smhunter
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
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I like when I learn something from what I read. The Roman mythology was an added bonus to a heart wrenching ghost story. Look forward to the next book in the series.
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Linda L. Oliphant
4.0 out of 5 stars Griffin has left a literary door open for more.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2019
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The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting and at times violent story. The descriptive passages are this author’s strength as he combines the backdrop of Bramley Manor with the playing out of the story. I was easily led into the story and allowed it to envelope me. Each room came into clear focus, catching every intricate detail along with bits of its history and clues. The gardens and surrounding grounds were just as detailed. I could almost feel the crispiness of autumn ending and winter nipping in. As I read, I became privy to Alice’s doubts and fears. I saw what she saw... including the ghosts. The ghost parts are descriptively creepy.

The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting story with some horror added for good measure. It’s a stand alone book; but like all good authors, Griffin has left a literary door open for more. And me? I’ll be at that door waiting for the next one...you can count on it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Griffin has left a literary door open for more.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2019
The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting and at times violent story. The descriptive passages are this author’s strength as he combines the backdrop of Bramley Manor with the playing out of the story. I was easily led into the story and allowed it to envelope me. Each room came into clear focus, catching every intricate detail along with bits of its history and clues. The gardens and surrounding grounds were just as detailed. I could almost feel the crispiness of autumn ending and winter nipping in. As I read, I became privy to Alice’s doubts and fears. I saw what she saw... including the ghosts. The ghost parts are descriptively creepy.

The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is a haunting story with some horror added for good measure. It’s a stand alone book; but like all good authors, Griffin has left a literary door open for more. And me? I’ll be at that door waiting for the next one...you can count on it!
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K. Johnson
3.0 out of 5 stars This story hovered between 2-3 stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021
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The Boy in the Burgundy Hood
The author is excellent at laying down the roots of a really good story. The creepy manor, the naive new hire, suspicious tenants and a couple apparitions in a wintry snowy setting.

Alice Deaton is an inexperienced conservator, hired by The Trust of England to get a forlorn mansion into show worthy readiness in a seriously short amount of time. Only, she hits one obstacle after another getting in the way of her doing her job.

While the story was slow on the uptake, a quarter of the way through, it turned a corner and became a captivating read...until the ending.

The ghosts themselves made an early appearance, which it turns out that Alice is able to see and communicate with and realizes there is a mystery here that must be solved in addition to everything else she needs to do.

Good descriptive writing aside, I found all the characters to be unlikeable. As for the boy in the burgundy hood, which the book is named after, he barely made an appearance enough to carry the title.
Alice, for her part, holding down a huge responsibility for the Trust, couldn't figure out how to get things done, couldn't understand how obvious things didn't add up, such as non-communicative employers, unsteady paychecks, no dedicated way to contact people. For the most part she was fairly whiny, mostly ignorant. Her employer was so obviously unreliable, the few people she meets on the grounds, she trusts too quickly and the ones she should mistrust outright, she excuses away their odd behaviors.

When it finally came down to the ending and how everything tied together, it was as if the author tired of writing this tale and slapped on an ending plus an epilogue that didn't really need to be there.

If the author wasn't so good with his writing skills, this would have been a complete 2 star read for me.
Got to the end and reread the last few chapters to make sure that I didn't miss something. Maybe I was hoping my Kindle glitched and there had to be more there.
It didn't. There wasn't.
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D.W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Read This if you like Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021
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This was an amazing and fun story. Alice gets her dream job of managing an old English estate under The Trust of England. The elderly descendants living in the manor can no longer afford the upkeep on the home, so they sign over rights to the trust to refurbish the home to its former glory while maintaining the right to live there. Alice sees ghosts who are trying to tell her something. Odd clues and behavior start popping up and soon the story moves in the direction of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. The descriptions of the home, landscape, and characters are well-written and the history of the family is unique. The excitement comes from the dangerous situation and not knowing where it is coming from, or why. This is a fantastic book. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans will get a kick out of this tale! Well Done Mr. Griffin!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A humorous ghost story that does have a dark twist
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020
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What This Book Is About
Alice Deaton had a new job, in a medieval manor house, 700 years old, owned by the Trust of England ... she was now ...boss.... the property manager.... this is ... Bramley. The owners (or-kind-of-not-really-owners).. the S-J's who are in their 60s, they didn't have the funds or energy to keep Bramley clean or tidy.... so
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Alice went through the house, stopping and admiring certain aspects of the interior with great detail, until .... welll she thinks she saw a glimpse of a boy, a boy with the burgundy hood ... no, she was certain she did.... however she kept going, scanning the different sites of the oldie worldly house, getting aquinted to old pieces of furniture and paintings that reminded her of her mother, until she ended up outside to meet the gardener, George, who has special needs, so Alice had to guess what he was saying ... you know how you do? The game..... charades? This all proved too much for Alice ... ‘Yes, we’ll get a pen and paper next time,’ she said.
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On we go to finding alot of treasures at Bramley, until she finds the painting ... a painting of a woman and a cow..... and then strange things happen with the phone, and then another phone, but this was different, but I'm not going to explain here .... because Steve Grffin, the author, goes into quite a conversational piece.
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We do actually get to meet the S-J's .....and giving a quote here.... "His eyebrows did that funny thing she’d noticed at the interview, lifting and dropping from left to right like a caterpillar." ........ ok, did anyone try that, like I did? ..... and then there was the amusement over THE tapestry, what was it?
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We then read about Alice sleeping in her room and there is someone in the room, now this so called girl wasn't the type of stranger you would want to meet in the dark..... but .... Ghostbusters ❌ .... who are you gonna call?
..... So how does Alice handle the ghost? does she don her proton pack? And wave her Neutrona Wand?

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What I Thought About This Book
This is not only a ghost story, but a mystery of something hidden that Alice finds herself delving into that involved a secret door, plus alot of art-gallery-paintings ... one in particular which I wont mention as I don't want to spoil the surprise, plus learning how to clean tapestry (which I knew nothing about, which was very facinating) and because of my love of vintage furniture, there is plenty to satisfy my taste and to top it off a holiday in the Lake District and even Roman mythology.
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I loved the humour in this book and to give you a quote in the book as an example....
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"any of the paintings in the dimmest rooms had suffered buckling and draws; quite a few frames had also been ravaged by woodworm (she imagined Bramley as a party house for the little critters – come on over, guys, this is the place to be!)".
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I felt at the beginning of the book when Steve had us as visitors to this old manor that if I was left alone, I surely would have got lost by now, but Steve is such a good host and narrator, that he introduces us to every aspect of the building that you feel you know the map of the building in your head.
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I loved the breaks in this book, numbered, which I have never seen before, but it gave some sort of order which I enjoyed.

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Recommendation
This book comes highly recommended by me and would suit anyone who is into Ghost Stories, anyone who likes Roman mythology, anyone who likes mysteries, anyone who likes the older style mansions and what's in them, anyone who likes vintage furniture, anyone who likes art related articles on paintings and tapestries and anyone who likes humour in their books. Basically this is an all round book that the majority of genres fall into, so would suit a wide range of readers.
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Hotscot
2.0 out of 5 stars It seems rather overdone.
Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2022
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For a ghost story to be effective, it has to maintain a sense of distance, of strangeness from the ghosts. Nothing dispels a sense of foreboding like over-exposure, and the ghosts in this tale surely get it.
The ending is so contrived that it is clear the author just didn't see any better way to get out of the plot (although this criticism has often been true of Agatha Chrstie, too!).
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Chris Spreadbury
5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbingly entertaining!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2024
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The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is described on the cover as ‘a ghost story’ and, while it is, there is a much more to it than that. Alice Deaton believes she’s found her dream job, when she lands the role of overseeing the restoration and opening of Bramley, a neglected country estate, reluctantly passed on to a heritage trust by a family who could no longer afford to run it.
The former owners are still on site, but there’s no internet, poor phone reception, and Alice feels isolated from the outside world … the perfect place to feel unsettled … oh, and then the author introduces the odd ghost, a creepy gardener, signs of the occult … and layer by layer begins to unravel the story.
I won’t say more. Read it for yourself … it’s disturbingly entertaining.
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garry johnson
4.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Love Alice
Reviewed in Australia on February 13, 2023
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Its all about Alice a very politically correct and very stupid girl and her first real job. Enjoyed the book even though Alice annoyed me at times. The writer set the scene really well. Seemed like an old house in country England. The characters were great, seemed real, fitted in so well. With Alice's boyfriend ( luckily soon to be an ex boyfriend ) the writer really nailed it. Wont say any more. The ending was a little shaky but then Alice had to live to fight another day. Yeah, a good story, not real big on ghosts but they were around---luckily for Alice. Look forward to reading Alice's next adventure.
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Kay
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is ok but not very scary.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2021
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The basic story was OK but just lacked something for me it just wasn't that scary for a ghost story. It did build tension in parts but felt it fell a bit flat at the end.
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A Gothic Writer's reading nook
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect modern day ghost story with a dark grisly twist.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2021
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There is nothing I love more than a good ghost story, especially when it is set in the rural remoteness of an English manor house. Add a storm and some snow to isolate our poor protagonist, and you have a winner.

But wait, there is far more to The Boy in the Burgundy Hood...

Alice Deacon lands her dream job working for a heritage trust, readying Bramley, medieval manor house to open to the public the following spring. The owners of Bramley, now occupying one of the wings, are a nosey couple in their later years, they don't like change, and Alice is not sure if they like her. Bramley is remote, old and full of history and atmosphere and ghosts. When Alice finds herself confronted with the vision of a young boy in a burgundy hood, she is lead down a dark path of sinister intrigue, mystery, and grisly realisations.

For me, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is far more than just a ghost story. It pulls you into an original tale of historical details, art and mythology, with well-formed characters that twist along with the devious plot. When you think one thing, the author surprises you and gives you something else.

I'm eagerly looking forward to reading more from Steve Griffin.
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A Gothic Writer's reading nook
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect modern day ghost story with a dark grisly twist.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2021
There is nothing I love more than a good ghost story, especially when it is set in the rural remoteness of an English manor house. Add a storm and some snow to isolate our poor protagonist, and you have a winner.

But wait, there is far more to The Boy in the Burgundy Hood...

Alice Deacon lands her dream job working for a heritage trust, readying Bramley, medieval manor house to open to the public the following spring. The owners of Bramley, now occupying one of the wings, are a nosey couple in their later years, they don't like change, and Alice is not sure if they like her. Bramley is remote, old and full of history and atmosphere and ghosts. When Alice finds herself confronted with the vision of a young boy in a burgundy hood, she is lead down a dark path of sinister intrigue, mystery, and grisly realisations.

For me, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is far more than just a ghost story. It pulls you into an original tale of historical details, art and mythology, with well-formed characters that twist along with the devious plot. When you think one thing, the author surprises you and gives you something else.

I'm eagerly looking forward to reading more from Steve Griffin.
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