Number 11, or Tales that witness madness

 The novel begins and (almost) ends with Rachel visiting her grandparents’ house in Beverley. The events in between interweave Rachel and her friends and acquaintances as they encounter and usually come off worst against the next generation of the Winshaw family and its hangers-on. It has to be the next generation since Coe killed off all of the previous generation in one gory night back in 1991. However, their spirit lives on.