Charlotte E. English
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It's all very well deciding to build the means to save British magick. Top marks for ambitious goals! ...But there are one or two obstacles in the way. For one, said means does not yet exist, and it'll take a genius to sort that one out. Luckily, we've got one of those. We call him Orlando. For another, nothing at all can be built without materials, and no common-or-garden commodities will do. It's got to be silver. The impossibly rare, virtually...
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Konrad Savast is the Malykant: the most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.
Something is gravely amiss in the city of Ekamet.
The body of a homeless man lies under a bridge, torn to pieces. The serpents say it's not murder - not exactly. A merciless, violent death dealt by something... not human.
The trail leads into the Spiritlands,...
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Cold Days at Castle Drax:
Hellfire. Brimstone. Awkward family dinners.
No one in their right mind wants to live at Castle Drax.
That's okay. The Vexx family aren't.
On a crumbling cliff overlooking a dark, emerald sea looms the forbidding Castle Drax. It's ancient, it's freezing, it's falling apart-and it's home.
But hard times have come around, and the demonically dysfunctional Vexx family's in dire straits. There's nothing for it but to sell the...
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Fresh from an involuntary crash course in the Stranger Arts, I've a new mystery on my plate: the inexplicable reappearance of a particularly fantastic magickal species. Which is great, don't get me wrong. Rescuing magickal beasts is what we do around here. But the Dappledok Pup hasn't been seen since the seventeen hundreds; so how did we find one, alive and kicking, over two hundred years later? And this beast has a talent for sniffing out treasure,...
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Have you been to Castle Chansany?
Perhaps you've heard of it, or somewhere like it.
It's that airy castle in the clouds, straight out of a dream.
A place where wizards spin marvels from their finger-tips, and the Queen holds banquets deep into the night.
A place of mystery and curiosity, finery and fancy, where even the furniture might talk to you (if you're polite enough to it).
A place of magic and enchantment, where anything could happen...
Come...
6) Snowbound
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Detective. Judge. Executioner.
Konrad Savast is the Malykant: the most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.
Konrad may be finished with the coven at Divoro - but are they finished with him? Outside the gates of Ekamet, a new ice-palace has arisen, its grisly contents aimed squarely at the Malykant. Its message is clear: interference with...
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We're all mad here... Dispatched overseas - far, far overseas - we're in hot water. Again. Following in the footsteps of a long-lost king, we're on the road to the mysterious Vales of Wonder. The upside? It's a hot-bed of magickal marvels, the likes of which we've literally never seen before. The downside? Danger. Because who ever said adventure would be easy? Fortunately, we have help. One reviled but aggravatingly handy beast specialist: check....
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Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. Not that there aren't advantages to my particular predicament. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to... put it to use, no? Who knows what could happen? Certainly nothing insane, irresponsible and potentially life-threatening. As if. But we'll need every possible advantage...
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I may not be blessed wi' magic, but I do like to keep things nice and tidy.' Deep in the Lincolnshire Wolds in the year 1812, Bessie Bell slaves away as a housemaid for a merciless employer. Being smart of mouth and a dab hand with a bucket, she makes short work of an assailant - only to be thrown out into the drenching fog of a cold October night. That's when things turn... strange. Swept away into a wild adventure, stout-hearted Bessie's fazed by...
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Cast away from the Society (sort of) and out on our own, we've got a big problem on our hands - and an exciting prospect, too. They call it time travel on TV. Is this the big, fat secret the Hidden Ministry's been keeping? What's the real truth behind that wandering tower? Answers must be found - in the face of severe opposition from the Ministry, from Ancestria Magicka, and from every Fae Court in existence. Simple. If only everything wouldn't keep...
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Rumour's got a lot to say for itself, and the message is clear: the regulator's ready. You know. The magickal regulator. The bright and shiny thing with which we, Team Improbable, propose to restore magick to a fading Britain. Somebody's got to test it, and that somebody is us. Which means wading into the depths of a long-dead realm that nobody's entered in centuries. And I may have had some practice at that, but this time it's different. This time,...
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Meet the baddest belles of London city.
They were known as the fatales, once.
Investigators and spies, killers and thieves, con artists and vigilantes - they fought fire with fire, did what had to be done, to make things right.
Until the mission that broke them.
Many decades later, the fatales have scattered to the winds.
Fionn's the queen of London haute couture. Thetai's the star of the power metal scene. And Daix? Could be anything. Anywhere.
It'll...
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Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.
Solstice Eve, and Konrad is dragged from his bed to investigate the murder of a local wine merchant. The man's as dead as they come, but his spirit seems oddly unperturbed by his passing.
More victims are swift to emerge, all killed in the same brutal style...
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Four years ago, somebody pinched perhaps the most valuable book in existence. Merlin's personal grimoire. And the price they're offering for its return is the kind we can't refuse, so it's Ves and Jay on the case. Except that there aren't any clues. Seriously, not even a little one. Nothing's going to solve this case but a Vesper-patented Crazy Plan, and it had better be a good one, for complications are sprouting like daisies. At least it's a straightforward...
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Ancient legends don't come back to life. Until they do....
The vast, winged draykoni once ruled the skies of the Seven Realms, uncontested and unstoppable - so the stories say. But they are only tales. Aren't they? A shy young woman is about to learn that sometimes, even the most far-fetched story might prove to be the plain, simple truth.
In book one, Draykon: When Llandry Sanfaer discovers a new type of jewel, her life changes forever. Wonderful...
17) Shandral
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Reeling in the aftermath of the malefic curse, the city of Ekamet knows no peace, for a new killer strikes - and strikes again.
Two men lie dead, gaping holes where their eyes used to be, with knives of carved bone sprouting from their butchered hearts.
But who is to deliver justice for them now?
For Konrad is adrift in the wake of disaster, severed from all he loves. Will his hard-won friends be enough to save him?
And can he be enough...
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Distantly upon the horizon, bejewelled light shone like stars; tantalising, inviting.
Then the palace-in-glass was gone, fading away into the velvet night like a snuffed lamp.
Between the sands and the starlight, ancient powers rise, and the oldest of tales becomes new.
An old sorcerer travels the starlight bazaars: cursed and magic-blighted, he has glass where his heart should be.
A half-jinni enchantress seeks her missing son: daughter of a...
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To catch a killer, send a monster.
There's a realm. Wreathed in ice and snow, drowning in the dark, Assevan needs a different kind of hero.
There's a god. Merciless and cold, and quick to anger, the Lord of the Dead insists upon one thing only: vengeance for a murdered soul.
And there's a man. A ruthless killer, Konrad is detective, judge and executioner in one. Dauntless, relentless, monstrous, he stands alone against the dark.
Meet the Malykant....
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Fun" for all the family... I haven't heard from my mother in six years - which is why I was surprised to receive a summons from her. The peremptory kind. With nothing but a set of map co-ordinates to guide me, what exactly was I to expect? The short answer? Trouble, for Mother Dearest is in rather a lot of it. And like daughter, like mother, for there's a shiny artefact in the offing, and only a few gigantic lindworms in the way. Who isn't up for...