Sally Lockhart Mysteries Collection, Philip Pullman

Blood-and-thunder Victorian mysteries (with just a touch of steampunk) from a genius we'd sell our souls to write like. Sally Lockhart rides like a Cossack and shoots like a demon. Our kind of heroine, then! Hunting her father's killer through London's seedy underworld. Using her pistol to hold off three kidnappers in a quiet tea shop. Solving a royal mystery that could blow the lid off Europe. Warning: don't mess with Sally Lockhart. She's not your normal girl next door...Delicious historical melodrama from Philip PullmanDark intrigue, cursed rubies and murderous machinesPhilip is the author of the His Dark Materials trilogyHe has won the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Prize