Jonathan Stroud Books

This book is part of Jonathan Stroud’s brilliantly action-packed and suspenseful series about paranormal investigators Lockwood & Co – set in a witty world where ghosts and detectives collide.

Set in an alternate London plagued by terrifying supernatural forces, the book will send genuine shivers up your spine. In The Screaming Staircase, which is the first of the series, Lucy Carlyle finds a job at Lockwood & Co, a psychic detective agency run by the mysterious Anthony Lockwood. But can his ramshackle gang of young ghost-hunters survive the night in one of the most haunted houses in England?

Wildly popular and not for the faint hearted, this is a real page-turner best suited to readers aged 12 plus.