Judas, the Hero
Book One
Things are not looking good for Detective Inspector Judas Iscariot. Cursed with immortality by a vengeful and angry God, Judas finds himself in present-day London and head of the secret occult crime division known as the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. It's his job to keep London's mysterious and macabre underworld under control.
He's on top of his caseload, and everything seems fine until one morning, a pair of severed angel wings is delivered to the Black Museum, and his world is turned inside out and upside down. Again.
He, indeed, is one of history's most hated men, but he's been given a second chance. It could also be his last.
His investigation takes him on a journey through a city where angels work in pubs, pulling pints and delivering the post, along invisible pathways created by the ancient druids, to slave pits under construction sites, and on special trains that use Britain's Ley lines as their tracks. Danger is everywhere, and characters from London's evil past are queuing up to see him fall, but there are those who will fight his corner, too.
WW2 Black Magicians, werewolves in U Boats, and the mysterious '10' all want him dead. Still, If Judas can change – if he can help those that need it most and become a 'Hero' – then it's just possible that he will finally be forgiven for the crime of all crimes and finally find peace.
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The Children of the Lightning
Book Two
‘The death toll will make the Blitz seem like the popping of a champagne cork.’
DCI Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard’s occult division, the Black Museum, is heading into harm’s way – again. The Order of the Black Sun, a secret Nazi society of evil magical practitioners has stolen a book so powerful that it once resided in the Library of the Heavens, guarded by angels and far from the meddling hand of man. The Order plans to use its arcane power to unleash a terrifying weapon on the world, starting with London.
Judas is on for the fight of his long, long life and he’s going to need a very special team to help him win through. Old friends and new – warrior angels, werewolves, a 17th-century highwayman and his trusty steed, ghostly mariners and an enigmatic Atlantean warrior – will stand by him until the end. Or at least he hopes they will.
If he fails, the enemy will destroy everything he has been ordered to protect. Even if he defeats the enemy, will it truly be enough to earn history’s most famous betrayer the redemption he so desperately craves?
Everything is at stake and nothing is what it seems. Will it be glory, death or something far worse?
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Oliver Twisted
A Novella
“The places we are going to visit tonight are by far the most dangerous that this fair city has to offer. The streets and lanes are nasty places; a man might get lost in there and never reappear. The canals are full of bodies, and the rats grow fat on them.”
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Christmas is coming to Victorian London’s most notorious slum, the Rookeries of St Giles. And as the snow falls, the bloody body count rises. A demonic serial killer stalks the streets, and nobody is safe.
Judas Iscariot, renowned thief-taker and scourge of London’s dark and dangerous underworld, has been engaged by a mysterious old businessman turned guardian angel who wishes to keep a promising young writer called Charles Dickens safe as he roams the streets looking for inspiration for his novels.
But Judas is not the only one watching Dickens closely. Murderers, ferocious beasts, and the rest of the worst that the underworld has to offer want his head, or his soul – depending on who gets there first.
A mouth-watering mashup of some of literature’s best-known characters, Oliver Twisted, is a festive tale like no other, featuring the world’s most unusual and unexpected investigator.
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The Blind Beak of Bow Street
Book Four
"This is more than just bloody murder Inspector, this is a race war, with magic on one side and a right evil monster who thinks it's the devil's work on the other."
Archibald Strop. Editor. The Newgate Calendar.
DCI Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard's occult magic division, the Black Museum, has only been back in London for five minutes when things get bloody.
Bloody quickly.
Something evil has returned from the depths of the London Necropolis Burial Grounds. There's only one thing that its black heart desires – the extermination of the Fae and the destruction of the magical underworld they inhabit.
The attacks begin, the death toll rises, and Judas quickly realises that the Fae and all the races of London's Under Folk are in danger. And with fairy pickpockets, Welsh tree spirits that love a good hustle, Dick Whittington's cat, angels and lots of friendly fire from a new threat to the Black Museum to contend with, he's far busier than he would like.
Then Lucifer the Morningstar, First of the Fallen, arrives unannounced; he knows something that Judas doesn't and wants him to change sides as payment for spilling the beans.
Surrounded by enemies, always one step behind, and running out of time as usual, it's all looking a bit bleak for Judas.
But isn't it always?
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The Death of the Black Museum
Book Five
Two cursed creatures with black hearts and evil intentions meet in secret on a stony beach, under a dead sky, to agree to the terms of a compact that will set in motion a chain of events that will lead to a bloody civil war in the underworld beneath London’s Underground.
Only DCI Judas Iscariot, the world-weary and often misunderstood head of Scotland Yard’s secret occult magic division, the Black Museum, stands in the way.
What starts as a simple abduction swiftly escalates into something far darker and more sinister than anything the Black Museum has ever faced.
Angels fight and fall, giant black beasts haunt London’s streets, Jack the Ripper returns, murdered trolls’ surface in the sewers, and something rotten threatens to poison the heart of the Black Museum.
Judas is under attack from all sides; then Lucifer the Morningstar appears with a message from God.
Can things get any worse?
With Judas involved, it’s not a case of if – but when.
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The Murder of the Mudlarks
Book Six
Stand away, you people of the river, and cast off your lines
Or death will come for you as surely as the turn of the tide
The ancient and most secret society of smugglers, pirates, and thieves rules the capital's rivers and waterways.
They have pooled their resources and prospered for over five hundred years, but when the young Mudlark Prince is murdered, their union is shattered, and the great river's grey waters begin to run red.
DCI Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard's secret occult magic division, the Black Museum,
investigates, and soon realises that something else is stirring in the city, something old, evil, and very powerful.
Dick Whittington and his feline fixer – Cat Tabby, return, massive stone Golems stalk the capital's dark streets with murderous intent, angels fall from the sky, and in the dark places beneath the city,
the Old Giants awaken to the promise of battle and bloodshed.
If they fight – London falls.
If the killer of the Mudlark Prince escapes – London falls.
Judas is between the hammer and the anvil once again.
And if God is the hammer, then who is the anvil?
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An Ink so Dark
Book Seven
When members of the public start killing each other in bizarre circumstances and with no apparent motive, DCI Judas Iscariot of the secret occult magic division at Scotland Yard, known as the Black Museum, is called into action. But, unfortunately, he quickly discovers that a demonic serial killer with a horrifyingly unique M.O. has come to town. Meanwhile, in leafy Highgate, the ghost of the killer of the King's Horses stalks the cemetery. In the Irish Sea, a Patron Saint stirs, and back at Scotland Yard, the seeds of betrayal and deception are sown. The White Witch returns, Sergeant Lace walks into danger, and the First of the Fallen sets a trap on a dark bridge that joins Heaven to Hell. Judas has never been so vulnerable, but there is hope as long as the Black Maria, Bulls-Eye the talking dog and his friend Montague Huxley stand with him. But will it be enough to save the people he loves and the city he serves?
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A Burning in the Heavens
Book Eight
Fourth Seal and Lamb of Mayfair are the Landlords from Hell.
They invest in bricks and mortar to crush bones and fill mortuaries, and they prefer the rent to be paid in blood and misery.
It is only when Florence Snoutsville, a reporter for the Underworld’s most-read daily, The Newgate Calendar, investigates the disappearance of a family of Fae that the true extent of Fourth Seal and Lamb’s evil plan is discovered.
D.C.I, Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard’s secret occult magic division, The Black Museum, is called in to stop them.
Cursed with immortality by an angry and vengeful God, it’s his job to protect London’s Fae and the legion of fantastic and unusual creatures that make the Underworld beneath the Underground their home.
But Judas has more than enough of his own demons to face.
There are traitors in his midst; he’s surrounded by enemies, old and new, duplicitous witches with dubious intent, shadowy angels with secret agendas, and rumours of fiery metal beasts running the rails deep below the surface.
He’s more alone than ever before.
So, will this be the End of Days for Judas, or can he finally earn his way into Heaven?
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The Lords of Under
Book Nine
“One healthy child is worth its weight in gold, my love
But, get me twins, and I will drown you in coin
Secure me, identical twins, my love
And you shall have a treasure trove
My Love.”
Child Slavers Marching Song.
London’s forgotten tunnels and its dark and dank subterranean waterways are no longer deserted and silent.
They echo to the crack of the whip and the screams and the sobbing of stolen children.
In the North of England, the High Council of the Angels is under attack – from within.
Assassins, Anarchists, Victorian Villains, and Provocateurs stalk London’s streets.
And what have the Lords of Under to do with all of this?
D.C.I: Judas Iscariot, Head of Scotland Yard’s secret occult magic division, The Black Museum, investigates.
He enters the hallowed halls of the Lords of Under, where he discovers that the Earls, Barons, Baronesses and Bishops of the underworld have their secrets, too.
Dark, deadly, and dangerous secrets.
His enemies are legion, and Judas cannot fight them alone.
Will Freya and Ulf, the Vikings, Bulls Eye, the boxing Bull Terrier, Lord Dodger, and the Warden of the Church Roads come to his aid?
Judas must journey into the darkness once again.
But has he the strength or the will to save his world – again?
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The Coming of the Darkest Raven
Book Ten
“They are stout of heart and run towards danger carrying only a lantern and a wooden truncheon, poor fools.
They learn too late that dark magic and death are waiting for them.”
The Eastern Emigres. Sidney Street. 1910.
London’s cramped and politically charged East End is a battlefield.
Secret Societies and criminal gangs wage war against each other.
But now, they have more than just knives, hammers, guns, and fire.
Now, they have something infinitely more powerful – dark magic.
The Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, turns to the Met’s occult magic department—the Black Museum at Scotland Yard and enlists the help of Sergeant Judas Iscariot, but when Churchill is removed from office, the case is suddenly and mysteriously closed.
A century later, an impossible robbery takes place at an impregnable vault in London, and on the South Coast of England, a French fishing boat runs aground. Her crew are found in the hold, bludgeoned to death with lead pipes wrapped in bandages.
D.C.I, Judas Iscariot, now The Master of the Black Museum, is called in to investigate.
But there are dark forces arrayed against him, powerful creatures who mean him ill.
Who and what is the mysterious and secretive department known only as SEC14?
And what of The School of Night and the Master of the Ravens?
Are they friends or foes, or something far more dangerous?
There are dark days ahead for Judas, but aren’t they always?
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A Quiet Sphere of Chaos
Book Eleven
In the darkness beneath the city, ghouls and ghosts roam London’s lost and forgotten plague pits, angry, desperate, and hungry.
So, when a greedy and unscrupulous property developer stumbles into their prison, they seize the opportunity – and escape to the world above.
They begin to feed and feast upon the living, and D.C.I, Judas Iscariot, is called in to investigate.
But starving ghouls and angry ghosts are not the only evil haunting the Capital.
A sinister cabal is manipulating the magic of the Ley Lines, causing werewolves, witches, trolls, beasts, and demons to suddenly appear without warning on London’s streets.
He’s been cursed with immortality, banished, betrayed and pushed too far, too often, and now someone has put a bounty on his head.
Things are looking dark for Judas; he’s alone, outnumbered and outgunned again.
But this time – he’s angry.
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The Lost Son
A Novella
Fourth Seal and Lamb of Mayfair are the Landlords from Hell.
They invest in bricks and mortar to crush bones and fill mortuaries, and they prefer the rent to be paid in blood and misery.
It is only when Florence Snoutsville, a reporter for the Underworld’s most-read daily, The Newgate Calendar, investigates the disappearance of a family of Fae that the true extent of Fourth Seal and Lamb’s evil plan is discovered.
D.C.I, Judas Iscariot of Scotland Yard’s secret occult magic division, The Black Museum, is called in to stop them.
Cursed with immortality by an angry and vengeful God, it’s his job to protect London’s Fae and the legion of fantastic and unusual creatures that make the Underworld beneath the Underground their home.
But Judas has more than enough of his own demons to face.
There are traitors in his midst; he’s surrounded by enemies, old and new, duplicitous witches with dubious intent, shadowy angels with secret agendas, and rumours of fiery metal beasts running the rails deep below the surface.
He’s more alone than ever before.
So, will this be the End of Days for Judas, or can he finally earn his way into Heaven?
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