Volume 1: The Dead Speak Ill Of The Living
Dulcimer Nettleship wasn’t just saddled with a strange name by her father; his mysterious death has haunted her and cost her a husband and thousands of pounds in childhood psychologists. So when her job as a journalist reveals how a local lab has made a machine that can talk to the dead, she just has to steal it. She’d have taken it back too had the lab not been attacked by rivals, an event that pushes her together with scientist Joe, professor Pohl and a friendly hacker with his own secrets in Nazir. Together they embark on a strange series of adventures, using the words of the dead to deal with murderers, con men, government agents, sexual telepaths, cats and finally the otherworldly truth behind Mr Nettleship’s death.
Dee Nettleship and her group of ghost botherers are still mourning after recent events, but decide they should go on after being called back into investigating. Now they must survive Russian history, Ukrainian war zones, the worst singer in the world and more, and they’re given a very welcome surprise in a world where dying needn’t be the end. But behind it all the Array is plotting, and when a self aware super computer made of human brains decides to change the state of Britain, no one is safe from harm. Even if it does mean it as gentle flirtation.
Dee and friends strike a deal: they’ll do what the government want if they get their road trip across the USA first. That’s why the foursome embark on a journey through ghosts, supernatural capitalism, murders and museums, and why the government watch, waiting, a plan in motion.
Back in Britain, Dee and friends have to face up to their future: they work for the government now. Of course that involves an actual honest to god secret base, new allies and greater opportunity for chaos, but it also means the beings that ruined Dee’s childhood are back and with greater designs on the world than ever.
The world has changed. With every news outlet broadcasting the hidden realities of souls and space, people are either rushing to take advantage of this new unnormal or fleeing away from it. Cut loose from the government, Dee and friends do the only thing they know how: get involved in anything weird and strange. But a final opportunity presents itself, and Dee must save humanity from ancient masters. Who will survive the conclusion of The Dead Speak series?
Tamara Campbell doesn’t want to be at Cambridge university, she wants to be learning the skills of her immortal patron so she can kill him for what he did to her brother. But the patron genuinely cares for Tamara, and has arranged a place at the university so she can have the life he never led. Only when she has completed three years can she learn. So, deeply hurt and grieving, trying to come to terms with her sexuality, her capacity for violence and her ability to see into the truly terrible afterlife, she deals with mysteries, cults, busybodies, killers and her own friends. Now the limits have been taken off her life, Tamara cannot resist pushing out. But it’s what’s close to home she cannot see. This is her first year of college.
Tamara Campbell tries to put her first year of university behind her as she begins the second, tries to find a rhythm to pretending to study while getting involved with every strange murder and disappearance in the area. But she keeps being stopped by a new complication, by a new student who is on the same secret program as her. As an awkward trio investigate witches, cats, killings and strangeness, Tamara tries to discover who Chloe really is, and why she’s barred from going back to Europe…
Tamara Campbell has one year left of university but her past is catching up to her, a legacy split between bitter ex-girlfriends and immortal survivors once buried in the ground. Can she navigate all manner of killers, consequences, lovers and errors to keep her and her friends alive? The final entry in the Tamara Campbell trilogy traces the end of her time in Cambridge. But is it her end of days too?