One freezing cold Christmas Eve night, he is visited by the ghost of his dead music biz partner Jake Marley and an eerie night-time journey begins.

It was an eerie journey.

The splendour and pomp seemed to mock our secretive, eerie journey.

But if you surrender and go with her on her eerie journey, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantment, as if in a voluptuous dream.

What Anita Mason's fifth novel does have is an attractive narrator in Freddy and a smoothly chugging narrative engine in her eerie journey, racketing through the dark from Berlin to the Baltic in a two-seater biplane on a fool's errand that nevertheless must be performed.

He was silent for a minute, thinking again of that eerie journey through the black cavities of the dead submarine, flashing an electric-torch before him.

Like an eerie journey into a shadowy past, the files of the agency, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, provided a profoundly unsettling reminder of the state's determination to maintain Jim Crow segregation, as reporters and individuals named in the commission's files began to review the computerized records.

It was an eerie journey, like something out of a dream, a wild ride that never seemed to get anywhere.

It would be an eerie journey, she knew.

But the rest found it an eerie journey.