AustLit

'I hate ghosts! I've played follow-the-leader with a bunch of dead men, fronted up to a demon with all my runes round the wrong way, been half strangled by a book illustration, nearly killed by a bunyip in a launderette washing machine. So when Raissa invited me to a séance I was sure was a fake but turned out to be real, I knew there could only be trouble for Ernie Pine. And there was—wedging a witch, an apprentice magician, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and me all too literally between the Devil and the deep blue sea…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'While visiting country cousins in Donnington who know of his interest in the occult, Ernie is asked to investigate the case of a ghostly motorcyclist haunting the town. Ernie takes off along the roads of Donnington on the very bike the dead man rides.'

Source: Author's website.

'While working in a laundrette, Ernie finds traces of amateur magic having been performed which has invited something dangerous into one of the washing machines.'

Source: Author's website.

'Youngsters ask Ernie to "kill" a frog-eyed ghost haunting their backyards and lane.'

Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)

'Ernie holds a night vigil in a second hand bookshop haunted by poltergeist activity — or something worse.'

Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)