Lockwood & Co 03: The Hollow Boy

The brand-new Lockwood & Co. from global bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud. Ghouls and spectres beware, London's smallest (but best) psychic detection agency is on your case . . .

Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambollic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. 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 . . .Ghouls and spectres, thrills and tension in this brand-new instalment in Jonathan Stroud's bestselling series.'Stroud is a genius' - Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series.

Vorwort
The brand-new Lockwood & Co. from global bestselling author, Jonathan Stroud. Ghouls and spectres beware, London's smallest (but best) psychic detection agency is on your case . . .

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

Lockwood & Co is a psychic detective agency dedicated to wiping out the epidemic of hauntings that has beset Britain for more than fifty years. Now the trio face their deadliest challenge yet. Full of suspense, humour and truly terrifying ghosts, this is the third book in the brilliant new series from the author of the BARTIMAEUS sequence.

Zusammenfassung
But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. 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.