"If you love Sherlock Holmes, you'll love this book…the best account of Baker Street mania ever written."—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostWinner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction workEdgar Award finalist for best critical/biographical workAnthony Award finalist for best critical/nonfiction workEveryone knows Sherlock Holmes. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doc...

Murky Victorian London. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Blaylock has done her best to fill her absconding mother's shoes, but her father is lazy and feckless, and her little sister is riddled with tuberculosis. When Lizzie has a fit at school, for which she is expelled, she and those around her slowly begin to realize that she may have special powers…powers to communicate with the dead.'Please!' Miss Otis wailed. 'Please! For the love of God, step back!'And suddenly the man did. A ...

Rory is born in poverty on a Caribbean island. To give him a chance at a good life, his parents send him to an aunt and uncle in Brooklyn. Rory's dream is to return and rescue his parents from the "hellish island". For sixteen years his dream drives him to excel in everything he does. He returns to the island, but he's too late. Heartbroken, Rory researches Irish history and discovers 50,000 Irish, including his ancestors, were sold into slavery in the seventeenth century and now only 400 ...

Originally conceived as a blog to accompany Gallagher's Victorian novels, and freely available to read online, this guide provides a great introduction to the fascinating phenomenon of 19th Century spiritualism. If you can't tell your materializations from your Mumlers, or never realized just how physical ghost-grabbing could get, then this may well be the perfect book for you.

THE DEVIL'S WORK is an intriguing suspense/thriller that parallels current day events. It flirts with the thin line between fiction and reality, the real and the surreal, and makes you wonder about the agendas of banks, governments, and social media companies. The world is experiencing geological disasters, pandemics, drought, famine, and the rise of a powerful extremist group. As economies collapse, world leaders implement a single currency and rationing system to distribute the necessiti...

Octavius Guy and the Case of the Quibbling Cleric. London, 1853. The well-heeled residents of Highbury have a problem: the Reverend Allaston Burr, the rector who's been foisted upon their congregation by an ancient yet legally-binding right known as an advowson. When a final appeal to Queen Victoria—as the head of the Church of England—fails to remove him from his post, they turn to Gooseberry for help.Join fifteen-year-old Octavius and his ragtag bunch of friends as they investigat...

‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down on the floor.”’On 28 October 1996 Glaswegian Michael Gallagher is arrested in an armed dawn raid on the London flat he shares with long-time partner, Mary Attenborough. Accused of playing a role in the IRA mortar attack on Heathrow Airport in Mar...

Romance that rhymes with ruin;obsession's a song they're both fluent in.Vale tastes potential like other men taste wine—notes of desperation, hints of untapped brilliance, the full-bodied flavor of someone ripe for unmaking.Kieran plays for spare change in subway filth, that stuttering voice transforming into something holy only when he sings. Sick. Abandoned. Already intimate with the architecture of suffering.Exquis...

There’s no hiding the truth.The horsemen and I are on a dangerous path.The deeper I fall for them, the more the world around us crumbles.Nowhere is safe and everyone wants to destroy them.I’m the weak link–the pawn to take down the kings.The games their enemies play with me will have consequences.Because no one touches the horsemen's toy but the horseman.This is book 3 of 6 in the Untouched series. This book follows Their Twisted Rule...

I used to think my future in pro hockey, my motorcycle between my thighs, and my friends were all I needed.But she changed all that.She thinks she’s above it all.She thinks she can move into my father’s house with her gold-digging mother.She thinks she can do no wrong, but I saw her that night.Now I’m consumed by revenge.And my two best friends and I will be the ones to punish her.I won’t think about how soft her li...

He's the hottest hockey player in the nation, and I just agreed to be his fake girlfriend.Theo Brooks is hard not to notice. With his coy smirk, rock-hard abs, and skilled agility on the ice, he's the cockiest of all the jocks and, unfortunately for me, my new roommate.When Admissions mixes up my first and last name, and I end up living in the male dorms, I feel my perfectly tied schedule loosening with every string Theo pulls. And he likes to pull every si...

Five years ago three men confessed to killing my brother.Now I'm living with them.Five years ago I was falsely accused of murder. Then three gorgeous enigmatic men confessed to the crime.Otis: the quirky protector who worships the ground I walk on.Wolf: my dead brother's best friend, forbidden to touch me.Jace: the bully who despises me.The newspapers called them the Blackwell Beasts. Were they scapegoats for someone else's c...