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Letty Parker lives by her wits. Estranged from her family, she sells pies on the streets of Bristol. But this is a Bristol full of dark secrets, peopled by gangs, monsters, dragons and gargoyles - and by creatures older than time. When her friend and stepsister disappear, when members of Jeb's gang vanish, Letty is plunged headlong into a conspiracy where homeless children are being spirited away to a place where a terrible fate awaits them. T...

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The power of the Dark Ones is growing once more. Watching from their rooftop perches, the gargoyles and dragons have all the gossip they could ever want. Deadly night eels slither through the city streets. The thief taker is on the prowl. And Jebediah Hill is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Letty discovers that Jeb, her oldest friend, has been keeping secrets, yet refuses to reveal them even though he knows he will pay a terrible price...

The time has come for Jane to sell the family home. Downsizing to a flat means everything must go, but her late husband's favourite chair is far too precious for the tip. Meanwhile Robyn, balancing her precarious career as a portrait artist with raising an autistic son, is searching for a chair with panache that will allow her sitters to pose in comfort. Elsewhere in the city, Tracey is clearing out her wardrobe at the same moment that divorce...

Letty Parker & Associates Detective Agency is finally in business. But before they can take on their first case, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous suspension bridge is blown up. Letty decides to investigate but getting hired is not as easy as she thought, especially when the Dark Ones have their own plans for her. Then there is Ma Pountney and her witches, plus the Bear and his gang of villains. Each determined to stand in Letty's way. Nothing ...

When Letty Parker is asked by her best friend, Hepzibah, to solve a family mystery she willingly agrees. She has no idea that investigations will lead the Letty Parker & Associates Detective Agency team across the high seas to the exotic isles of the Caribbean. Letty, Jeb and Mango, are soon fighting for their very lives in a world where pirates rule the seas, evil plantation managers hold the land, and the forests are filled with duppies an...

Every family has its secrets. In the nineteen-sixties Bristol, seventeen-year-old Kate is torn between the new sexual freedom and her rigid Catholic upbringing. Her parents have high expectations of her. She, however, is determined to lead her own life. Mimi, her grandmother, is dying. In her final hours, Mimi's cousin, the Princess, keeps watch at her bedside. Born in the same month, in the same year, the two women are bound by their past and...

Jo Docherty stood and looked at the wedding ring on the black granite worktop. It would be so easy to leave it there and go. Desperate to have a child of her own, haunted by a girl in a blue dress, her only hope of saving her marriage is to go back to the place where it all began. Brooding over the estate at Weston Ridge, the house at Kingsfield hides a violent history. Built by a slave owner for his beloved wife, it is a place of lost childre...

Liz, Bernie and Elsa have been friends since their days at St. Cecelia's school. Their lives took very different paths but they all have found happiness in their own fashion. Liz is an independent career woman, Bernie a good Catholic mum with four sons and Elsa is supported by her wealthy ex-husband. Then, in the space of a few short weeks, everything they have taken for granted is swept away. Money, jobs and partners are all gone. How will th...

Abandoned as babies, twins Sadie and Thea have been brought up by Great-Aunt Jane. When Jane dies they inherit her house in Belvedere Crescent. The only home they have ever known, it is a place where time slips and slides, and what once might have seemed safe is revealed to be full of dark secrets and hidden dangers.

The world is broken. Sickness and fire rage across the land, and the last bastions of humanity struggle to survive. Bandits ravage the countryside, and most people are happy just to have walls around them. Society, such as it is, is a strict regime in which the only hope for a better life belongs to those who bite, scratch, and claw for it. Mouse is one of those people. Or, at least, she wants to be. Mouse is a born warrior, and she yearns to ...

The pavements are cracking, the earth is shaking and the Night People are coming to the surface. Deep beneath the ground an ancient power is stirring, bringing with it terrible danger to St Savlons. From the writer of Dragonfire and Juggler of Shapes comes the latest story of Polly and Courtleigh. Faced by their deadliest enemy, they must work together to save themselves and their friends before it is too late ...

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