“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.
This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:
Technically, it’s going to be an extra long wait to get to book 2, bc I haven’t even read book 1, dammit! But between the cover and the blurb I am hookeD!
Blurb: In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn’t made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood’s investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies compete on a job, the losing side will have to admit defeat in the Times newspaper.
Things look up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood & Co. to be present at the excavation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead. Saunders needs the coffin sealed with silver to prevent any supernatural trouble. All goes well-until George’s curiosity attracts a horrible phantom.
Back home at Portland Row, Lockwood accuses George of making too many careless mistakes. Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the ghost jar. Then the team is summoned to DEPRAC headquarters. Kipps is there too, much to Lockwood’s annoyance. Bickerstaff’s coffin was raided and a strange glass object buried with the corpse has vanished. Inspector Barnes believes the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found.
The author of the blockbuster Bartimaeus series delivers another amusing, chilling, and ingeniously plotted entry in the critically acclaimed Lockwood & Co. series
What about you? What are you waiting for this Wednesday?
I’ve never heard of this book or it’s series. I hope you enjoy it!
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I hope it is too — I fall in love with covers, and then hope fervently the text lives up to the covers, lol! I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to be done lol
Ahhhh… I love this series so much. The covers, the characters and the cheeky way these scary stories are told. Hope you enjoy it as much as we have in this house. Happy Reading!
Omg, tell me more! Do you think i could start on book 2 without reading book 1?
I heard of this series, but I haven’t read book one yet either! I definitely need to check this series out. Thanks for sharing it.
I am so out of it aren’t I? 😄 i cant believe I missed this series!
This one definitely sounds chilling! I don’t know if I could read it…LOL. But thanks for sharing, and enjoy. Here’s mine: “SECRET SISTERS”
Itdoes! I usually dontgo for thi.gs like this but apart of me reallywants to!
Wow what an exciting synopsis! There’s a lot of things happening – I don’t think you’ll get bored reading this one ;P Great pick & thanks for stopping by earlier!
My WoW
I hope I won’t get bored! I think i am guilty of building this up too much in my heada bit. Woops!
I doesn’t seem like my kind of book but hope you will enjoy the series
Thank you!
Great pick! This series sounds really good. I may have to check it out!
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
Thank you! I hope you do!