In the year 2024, middle-aged Pip Durrant has become a successful author on sabbatical at Oxford University, but is still troubled by harrowing visions of the supernatural figure who has dogged him since childhood: the loathsome Piper. He is now on a quest to find the Piper’s blasphemous autobiography, the Codex, in the hope that it will help him finally to overcome this ancient evil. But as events lead him and his friends back to the Romanian village of Arva, with its gruesome history of ritual child rape and murder, what new terrors lie in store for them?

The Codex is the long-awaited final book in acclaimed author Helen McCabe’s chilling Piper trilogy.

Published
July 2016
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Helen McCabe

Helen McCabe is a highly regarded author whose love of writing and powerful imagination, coupled with a determination to succeed, have ensured a long and successful career. Her lifelong fascination with literature, history and research and an interest in the paranormal have enhanced Helen’s immense gift for creative storytelling. She graduated with Honours from London University, where she read English, and holds an MA degree in 18th Century English Literature from the University of Keele. Her long career began with her first novel at the age of seven, with poetry published at 13 and read on the BBC. She started her true career as a novelist…