Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff, a grand country house, to check on her aged aunt Emily. She soon discovers that Emily's mind is crumbling, but that's not the only shock. When she starts to explore the house's many abandoned rooms, Rebecca discovers the rotten corpse of a dead woman. And Emily claims to have no idea who the woman is, or how she got there.

As she looks into Auercliff's past, Rebecca starts to trace the outline of a hidden tragedy. For generations, the house's occupants have been haunted by a terrible secret. Every member of the family ends up in the mausoleum when they die, but does the mausoleum hide more than just the bodies listed on its walls? And why have generations of the family been plagued by the same mysterious scratching sound?

The Body at Auercliff is a horror novel about a tormented family, and about the refusal of the past to stay buried.

First published: June 2016
Genre: Horror
Series or Standalone: Standalone