eBook Review: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Synopsis:

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.

Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest, most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, Lockwood & Co. have one last chance of redemption. Unfortunately this involves spending the night in one of the most haunted houses in England, and trying to escape alive.

Set in a city stalked by spectres, The Screaming Staircase is the first in a chilling new series full of suspense, humour and truly terrifying ghosts. Your nights will never be the same again . . .

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eBook Review: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Sinopsis:

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

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Book Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Judul: Seraphina
Judul Asli: Seraphina
Pengarang: Rachel Hartman
Penerbit: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Cetakan: I/Mei 2013
Penerjemah: Poppy D. Chusfani
ISBN: 978-979-22-9621-1
Tebal: 544hlm
Genre: Novel (Teenager, Young-Adult)

Sinopsis:

Selama empat dekade, manusia dan naga di kerajaan Goredd berdamai. Kaum naga mewujud menjadi manusia dan menyumbangkan pikiran mereka yang rasional serta matematis. Namun, akhir-akhir ini hubungan di antara kedua kaum memburuk. Apalagi ketika salah satu anggota kerajaan terbunuh dan ada kecurigaan bahwa pelakunya naga.

Sebagai musisi yang sangat berbakat, Seraphina Dombegh bergabung dengan kelompok musisi istana. Ia kemudian mau tidak mau terlibat dalam penyelidikan pembunuhan itu, bekerja sama dengan Pangeran Lucian Kiggs yang sangat awas.

Sementara mereka mulai membongkar rencana jahat untuk menghancurkan perdamaian, Seraphina berjuang melindungi rahasianya sendiri, rahasia di balik bakat musiknya yang luar biasa, rahasia yang begitu mengerikan sehingga dapat membahayakan nyawanya.

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