SKAYNE is a series of six short interconnected ghost stories by celebrated author Jonathan Barnes.
1958. British Intelligence agent Anthony Guist has been despatched to a guesthouse in the small seaside town of Chiding-on-the-Sands to meet a Soviet defector. Coolly unflappable until today and a dedicated sceptic, he is about to encounter a very different – and bloodcurdling – visitor.
It is the summer of 2011 and Detective Inspector Dennis Stoneham is working the night-shift. Celebrations for the Royal Wedding are in full swing but Stoneham wants no part of it. Instead, he’s become fascinated by the story of a young thief in the cells – a woman who swears that she stole something terrible from a stranger on the underground, something which permits communication of an impossible kind…