But the case goes horribly wrong and the agency is left with one last chance to redeem itself. But there is no adult overseer to be found at the rather ramshackle agency run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood and when young Lucy Carlyle arrives in London hoping for a notable career she finds herself immediately embarking on her first case. But it is only kids and teenagers that are able see and do battle with these ghosts so each agency is made up of a young workforce overseen by an adult. are called in to destroy these dangerous apparitions. You see, for the past fifty years the dead have been coming back to haunt the living and when they do agencies like Lockwood & Co. And I was not disappointed as Lockwood & Co - which is aimed at a slightly older audience than previous novels - proved to be another wonderfully entertaining read. So when a new book from their author Jonathan Stroud arrives my expectations are very high. I hold The Bartimaeus Trilogy and stand-alone novel Heroes of the Valley to be amongst the finest fantasy books I have read.
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