Goodly and Grave

An archly funny, classic mystery adventure with a magic twist! Lucy Driscoll may be big on gumption but she is down on her luck – and before long finds herself as the new Boot Girl at eccentric Gaunt Hall, working for the rich and sinister-seeming Lord Gaunt. But throughout the country children are going missing and before long Lucy begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Gaunt Hall – could Lord Gaunt have anything to do with the disappearances; and is there something more mysterious than that afoot at the Hall, where even the animals seem to know a secret they're not sharing! Irresistibly packaged!

The second adventure in this sharp-witted, magical mystery series. When reports come in that valuable magical objects are being stolen, Goodly and Grave are on the case, but just when they think they know whodunit their prime suspect turns up - murdered! Will Lucy be able to track the real villain without putting herself in deadly danger? A mystery with a magical twist. Justine Windsor is a debut author but has been short-listed and won various new writers awards including The Times/Chicken House children's writers prize and the youwriteone.com Children's Book of the Year. She lives and works in London.

The third adventure in this sharp-witted mystery series with a magical twist. Lord Grave is hosting a special ball at Grave Hall, and Lucy Goodly can't wait to see powerful magicians from all over the world gathered in one place. But alarming events in Grave Village threaten to overshadow the glittering occasion. Who are the strange children attacking Lucy's friends? What do they want? And why are his lordship, Vonk the butler and even little Violet, the scullery maid, behaving so oddly? Could it be to do with the same dark forces that were overthrown exactly a hundred years ago? It's up to Lucy to solve the mysteries before magicians everywhere are put in mortal peril. The third Goodly and Grave page-turning mystery with a magical twist.