Lockwood and Co is an exciting supernatural thriller series for readers 9+ written by Jonathan Stroud.
Now a major Netflix series - written and directed by Joe Cornish - the Lockwood and Co books follow psychic investigator Lucy Carlyle’s adventures investigating the spookiest and deadliest hauntings in London.
Britain has been haunted by an epidemic of ghosts, who only children have the power to fight. Lucy Carlyle joins London’s smallest ghost-hunter agency, run by Anthony Lockwood and his assistant George Cubbins and, together with their tools of the trade and a thermos of tea, they take on the most terrifying ghosts and ghouls.
The Lockwood and Co series starts with book one, The Screaming Staircase, but you can read the books in any order.
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All the Lockwood & Co. books in order:
Book 1: The Screaming Staircase (2013)
Book 2: The Whispering Skull (2014)
Book 3: The Hollow Boy (2015)
Book 4: The Creeping Shadow (2016)
Book 5: The Empty Grave (2017)
I enjoyed it but it was a bit weird at points.
It was a long read but the plot was good...
3.5* rounded up to 4.
A mostly satisfying conclusion to the series.
The majority of the book's reveals had been strongly hinted at in the earlier ...
Plenty of sarcasm and tension and humour as you would expect from this author. There were some genuinely chilling moments in this book. Disliked the c...