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C J Archer
It’s customary for Gothic romance novels to include a mysterious girl locked in the attic. Hannah Smith just wishes she wasn’t that girl. As a narcoleptic and the companion to…
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Hannah Smith thinks she is safe now that Reuben Tate is set to face trial. But when an unusual creature is let loose on the Freak House estate, everybody is…
Time is running out for Hannah. With her life hanging by a thread and Tate trying to kidnap her, she finds help in an unusual quarter - the man who…
A curated collection of magic...and murder.
When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away…
The arrival of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the…
India’s study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher. But the powerful magician escapes and is implicated in a murder.
A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt’s family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen…
To investigate the source of gossip about Cyclops, Willie does the unthinkable - she dons a dress. However her plan goes awry when she’s kidnapped by a disgruntled magician with…
Are curses real?
After a toymaker magician gives a lecture at a collector’s club soiree, an important spell is stolen and a man is found strangled. The investigation into his…
With knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India’s…
When a young gentleman is murdered by a shape shifter, Charlie and Lincoln interrogate their contacts and uncover a plot with links to the royal family-and links to more than…
With the wedding only days away, the Ministry is thrown into turmoil when another murder is committed by a shape-shifter. But this time the newspapers make the connection to werewolves…
It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass…
Past secrets have come back to haunt the residents of Freak House and their visitors.
A waif, her abductor, and a twist you won’t see coming. Charlie is being hunted for her dark magic, but only one man succeeds in capturing her. A man known…
In this 2nd instalment of the Ministry of Curiosities series, secrets are revealed and investigations don’t go as planned. Charlie finds her necromancy sucking her into a whirlpool filled with…
The 3rd book in the Ministry of Curiosities series sees Charlie and Lincoln facing dangerous spirits they cannot control in the search for Lady Harcourt’s missing stepson. Working together draws…
In the 4th Ministry of Curiosities book, Charlie and Lincoln must hunt down a killer before Charlie becomes his next victim.
The 5th book in the Ministry of Curiosities series. ASHES TO ASHES is a bonus novella-length story, told entirely from Lincoln’s point of view. It is shorter than the rest…
When Charlie returns to Lichfield, she steps into chaos. The killer is still on the loose, Lady Harcourt’s secret is out, Seth and Gus are gone, and Lady Vickers has…
As Charlie and Lincoln’s lives settle into a harmonious pattern, a new threat arises that could have far reaching effects for the royal family and Lincoln’s parents.
In the 3rd Glass and Steele novel, Matt and India investigate the murder of an apothecary magician.
India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a…
It should be a happy time for India and Matt, but forces beyond their control conspire to ruin their future. A distraction from their troubles comes in the form of…
As fashion designer to London's elite, she had an eye for detail and a flare for the dramatic. But there's nothing stylish about her cold-blooded murder.
With the social season…
She was admired by women and desired by men, until jealousy and past secrets took center stage. Help Cleo and her friends solve the murder of one of London’s leading…
A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. THE LIBRARIAN OF CROOKED LANE is an intriguing new fantasy from…
Minerva Peabody needs a man. Unfortunately she picked the wrong one. The impoverished playwright has a dream to see her plays performed on stage but in Elizabethan England, not only…
Cold, ruthless Lord Warhurst needs to distance himself from scandal if he’s to marry an heiress and save his decaying estate. But with his unwed sister falling pregnant, and his…
When a newspaper report of a medical miracle catches Matt's eye, he and India go in search of Dr. Hale in the hope he is more magical doctor than miracle…
Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway hat funf Jahre lang als Junge in den Slums gelebt. Doch als ein Diebstahl zu viel sie ins Gefangnis bringt, ist ihre einzige Fluchtmoeglichkeit ein toter Mann…
Als vom Friedhof Leichen verschwinden, stellen Lincoln und das Ministerium der Kuriositaten Nachforschungen an. Charlie jedoch nicht. Als Hausmadchen in Lichfield Towers mischt sie sich in die Geschafte des Ministeriums…
Mit Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show kommt AErger nach London. Als der Scharfschutze, der Willie beim Pokern schlagt, ermordet wird, ermitteln Matt und India. Willie ist uberzeugt, dass das Opfer…
To investigate the source of gossip about Cyclops, Willie does the unthinkable - she dons a dress. However her plan goes awry when she's kidnapped by a disgruntled magician with…
After a toymaker magician gives a lecture at a collector's club soiree, an important spell is stolen and a man is found strangled. The investigation into his…
With knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India's…
THE GOLDSMITH'S CONSPIRACY is the final book in the bestselling Glass and Steele series.
Tensions between the artless and magicians are flaring, but India and Matt discover someone is deliberately…
India's study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher for an unpaid debt. Before Matt can repay it for him, the powerful magician escapes…
To find the one man who can fix the magic in Matt's watch, he and India are led to a convent where the nuns will do anything to keep their…
The arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the…
