Táto séria sleduje osudy mladej a odvážnej ženy v pochmúrnom viktoriánskom Londýne. Každý diel ju zavedie do nového dobrodružstva plného záhad, intríg a nebezpečenstva. Mladá hrdinka sa musí spoľahnúť na svoj dôvtip a odvahu, aby odhalila pravdu a prežila v drsnom svete plnom tajomstiev. Je to napínavé čítanie pre tých, ktorí milujú historické detektívky s výraznou ženskou postavou.
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.
Sally is now twenty-two, and running her own financial consultancy - a thoroughly modern woman in a world of pompous men - but she's about to be thrown headlong into a vicious web of murder, mystery and pure evil. When a client's lost investment appears suspicious, Sally investigates. Soon she is ensnared in a whirl of high-society danger and deceit, which can lead her in only one direction - to the terrifying secret of the Shadow in the North.
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.