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Author: RA Jones | Website
RA Jones was born in 1955 and grew up in a mining village in South Wales with his nose in a book and his head in the clouds. He managed to subdue his imagination long enough to carve out a career in medicine, writing whenever the chance arose.
In 1994, writing as Dylan Jones, he published his first scary book for adults, a thriller, which was subsequently made into a two-part film by the BBC. Other scary books followed.
A growing desire to move away from adult thrillers and write for children is what currently preoccupies him. The Obsidian Pebble is the first in a quintet featuring eleven-year-old Oz Chambers whose family inherits a ‘haunted’ house. His mother wants to leave, but Oz wants to unlock the house’s mysteries and uncovers a secret that will change his life forever.
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The Obsidian Pebble
Oz Chambers lives in a haunted house. His mother wants to move, but Oz believes that the old place is too full of mystery to leave. When he and his friends hear ghostly footsteps, they decide to investigate the house’s eerie reputation. But what Oz hasn’t bargained for is that he’s not alone in his quest and that solving Penwurt’s puzzles will uncover a murky secret, and the chilling realisation that nothing is quite what it seems.
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Nov 4, 2011
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Mystery
Mr. Jones created a wonderfully entertaining story that I think children of all ages will enjoy. His storyline was quite engrossing and I found myself rooting on Oz Chambers while he embarked on investigating his own family house. He firmly believed it was haunted and he wanted to find out himself if the very noises he heard were that of some deceased person that lived in the house years prior. I think this i