Volg de spannende avonturen van een vindingrijke jonge vrouw die zich een weg baant door het complexe Victoriaanse Londen. Elk deel stort haar in een nieuw mysterie, vol gevaar, geheimen en onverwachte wendingen. Ze moet vertrouwen op haar scherpe intellect en moed om de waarheid te ontdekken en te overleven in een wereld vol samenzweringen. Deze serie biedt een boeiende mix van historische intrige en overtuigende karakterontwikkeling.
Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel.
An elderly lady loses her money on an investment; a conjuror is pursued by thugs; and a clairvoyant mentions the name of the richest man in Europe and his mysterious company. Seemingly unconnected events set Sally Lockhart on the trail of an evil far more awful than she could ever imagine.
Sally is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married....This trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise. When custody of her precious daughter is awarded to this evil stranger, it is the beginning of a terrifying struggle in which Sally will have to fight, with a gun if necessary, for the freedom of her family.The third instalment of the quartet. Sally is a surprising and modern heroine, and her fight against unknown and relentless evil in Victorian London makes an exhilarating and unforgettable novel. An unabridged reading of Philip Pullman's nerve-shattering thriller.
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.