'Fiendishly clever and monstrously funny C K McDonnell's latest will steal your soul and eat
your brain. In the nicest possible way of course.' TOM HOLT author of The Portable Door and
The Eight Reindeers of Christmas It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . For
most people that means a time of celebration relaxation and inebriation but not for the
staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn't
unprecedented it is at least noteworthy. It quickly emerges that this is no ordinary
book-club-triple-murder either as it features a librarian possessed by a chaotic entity who
has broken through from another dimension and is hellbent on vengeance. He's made a list but
he's not checking it twice as the whole of humanity is on it. Who would want to summon such a
thing? And how is anyone going to be able to send it back? As if that wasn't enough to be
dealing with a shocking revelation about a member of The Stranger Times team's past brings
family together but not in a way that's ever going to make it into a Hallmark movie.
Featuring demonically possessed Santas blood-thirsty books and the ghost of a legendary
nightclub it's beginning to look a lot like a Christmas apocalypse . . . Ring the Bells is
the fifth book in the award-winning critically acclaimed and laugh-out-loud funny The Stranger
Times series. The reviewers loved Relight My Fire: 'McDonnell's world is transgressively
hilarious grimly banal and beguilingly warm. Of course there's a story that the intrepid
journalists of The Stranger Times have to tease out: grave-robbing cryogenics a very angry
witch and a washed-up indie legend looking for a lost album but the real joy lies in the
pitfalls and pratfalls of getting there .' DAILY MAIL ' An absolute riot of a read.' DAILY
EXPRESS 'Laugh-out-loud funny and full of colourful characters.' DAILY MIRROR 'It's no
secret that here at SciFi Towers we're massive fans of the Stranger Times series by C. K.
McDonnell.' SciFiNOW 'I loved the dry and embedded humour of this book it's the stuff of
life . . . the whole thing is great fun.' SFCROSWNEST ' Relight My Fire is perhaps the best
since the original.' STARBURST
