Cracking Open A Coffin

Cracking Open a Coffin

Coffin's Ghost

Everyone has a few ghosts in their closets, but John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police believes that his are all safely tucked away. In fact, recently recovered from a gunshot wound, Coffin is hoping for a calmer life with his actress wife Stella Pinero. However, life has other plans for him. Coffin learns that all of his ghosts are not behind him when a parcel containing dismembered limbs is found outside a woman's refuge. The Serena Seddon Shelter for battered wives is located on Barrow Street, not far from Coffin's own home. But the link to Coffin is more sinister than mere proximity: his initials are written on the package and the shelter is housed in the building where he lived when he first arrived in the Second City. This discovery opens a door through which troop a succession of horrible and violent events including sudden death. Coffin's Ghost is another sterling entry in a series that has been continually praised for its ability to delve into the darker side of life and will leave readers wondering just how safe their secrets are.

The Secret Underground Palace (Season 1, Book 2)

Ma Xiaobolo and his classmate Zhu Daha were carrying a mysterious parchment book with magical energy and went to look for Dr. Eli, Ma Xiaobolo's mother who was engaged in archaeology in the mountains of Yunnan. On the way, they accidentally encountered two tomb raiders, Bamboo Pole and Big Head. Bamboo Pole thought that he had met two cheap helpers, so he lied that he and Big Head were archaeological team members. During the process of tomb raiding, Big Head triggered the quicksand mechanism of the tomb, and the four of them were trapped in the gloomy ancient tomb. At the critical moment, Ma Xiaobolo wanted to look for a way to escape in the parchment book. The mysterious power of the parchment book took them shuttling through various tombs in history, and they witnessed magnificent historical scenes and splendid historical time and space one after another...