For more than fifty years, Britain has been terrorised by an epidemic of murderous ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy them - with mixed results. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping to begin a shining new chapter in her career. Instead she finds herself joining the most ramshackle agency in the city, whose ineptitude is matched only by the charisma of its owner. But Lockwood & Co. have one last chance for redemption. All they have to do is spend the night in one of the most haunted houses in England and come out alive.
The team is called to Kensal Green Cemetery to investigate the grave of a sinister Victorian doctor. Strange apparitions have been seen there, and the site must be made safe. As usual, Lockwood is confident; as usual, everything goes wrong – a terrible phantom is unleashed, and a dangerous object is stolen from the coffin Lockwood & Co must recover the relic before its power is unleashed, but it’s a race against time. And if that’s not bad enough, the skull in the ghost-jar is stirring again…
When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard is left baffled. Even more baffling is that Lockwood & Co appear to have been excluded from the huge team of Agents investigating the Chelsea Outbreak. Surely this is the perfect chance for them to show once and for all that they’re actually the best in town? Well, that’s if they can put aside their personal differences for long enough to march into action with their rapiers, salt and iron...
Lucy is now a freelance operative, hiring herself out to other agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope Fittes, leader of the well-renowned Fittes Agency wants Lockwood & Co. to locate and remove the ‘Source’ for the legendary Brixton Cannibal. What will it take to reunite the team? Black marketeers, an informant ghost, a Spirit Cape that transports the wearer, and mysteries involving their closest rivals may just do the trick. But not all is at it seems...
After their recent adventures, the Lockwood & Co team deserve a well-earned break so naturally they decide to risk their lives breaking into a heavily-guarded crypt. A building full of unsettled souls, it’s also the final resting place of Marissa Fittes, the legendary and (supposedly) long-dead ghost hunter. What they discover changes everything. Join Lcokwood & Co for one last time as they battle ghosts and humans for truth and justice in this breathtaking finale to the bestselling series.
Jonathan Stroud wrote his first novel – Buried Fire – while working as an editor at Walker Books. He is the author of three internationally bestselling series: the award-winning Bartimaeus sequence, which has been published in 36 languages worldwide, the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co, which has been adapted for Netflix and the Western-inspired The Outlaws Scarlett and Brown series, currently in development for Amazon Studios. Jonathan lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three children.
Extent : 460 pages (1); 496 (2); 448 (3); 560 (4); 560 (5)
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children’s
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