Ghouls and spectres beware! London's smallest (but best) psychic detection agency Lockwood & Co. is back with a fourth deliciously terrifying tale!
Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970. After studying English Literature at York University, he moved to London, where he worked as an editor at a publishing firm. He is the author of the best-selling Bartimaeus series; the much-beloved Lockwood & Co. series (now a major Netflix series) as well as The Notorious Scarlett & Browne; Heroes of the Valley; The Last Seige; The Leap and Buried Fire. He lives in Hertfordshire with his family. He has yet to see a ghost, but is keeping his eyes open.
like the Famous Five fused with HP Lovecraft [...] cosy and
terrifying
*Financial Times*
Stroud's nerve-shredding ghouls, laconic hilarity and intelligent
character development make him a must for fiction aficionados with
an iron nerve
*Guardian*
this spine-chilling adventure is the perfect ghostly read
*The Week Junior*
Brilliant as ever
*Spectator*
All the books in the series have been excellent, but in The
Creeping Shadow, Stroud manages to pile mystery on top of suspense,
leaving me with the feeling that a year is far, far, too long to
wait for the concluding part of a series that instantly shot to the
very top of my reading pile. This is young adult writing of the
very highest quality.
*Crime Review*
If you’re in the market to have your pants scared off this
Halloween, this atmospheric tale, finely balanced between horror
and humour, will definitely do the trick . . . There are few
writers whose work I look forward to more.
*Middle Grade Strikes Back*
Publication of a new Lockwood and Co. adventure must qualify as one
of the literary events of the year. Jonathan Stroud not only writes
like a dream, he creates some of the most inventive, most exciting
storylines around.
*LoveReading*
I enjoyed it so much, I hope there will be yet another book soon to
follow in this fabulously told series.
*Amazed Earthling, with Guardian Children's Books*
I love this series so much, the characters are funny . . . the
ghosts are awesome.
*An Awful Lot of Reading*
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