F. E. Higgins Books

A deliciously dark and thrilling novel from a devilishly talented author.When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference: Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash.Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: The Black Book of Secrets. There's the gravedigger who has been resurrecting bodies; the butcher who made a mouse-meat pie for his bullying father, with fatal consequences; the wizened bookseller who went to murderous lengths to get her hands on a priceless tome.Ludlow longs to trust his mysterious master, but he senses Joe has much to hide. But then Ludlow Fitch has his own, very dark, secrets...

The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum; no one has ever escaped it. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness? Higgins' fans will devour The Lunatic's Curse, a deliciously scary tale and "polyquel" to her previous books, all of which can be read singly or together. But not in the dark . . .

The third dark and diabolical book by a talented author is now available in paperback.

Pin Carpue's father vanishes and he is left to live alone in the dismal city of Urbs Umida. When Pin meets the Bone Magician--a man who can make the dead speak--he is drawn into a world of magic and illusion.

Eric et Sophie Martin, les deux détectives sont confrontés à un parrain de la mafia russe. Conscient de ne pas pouvoir obtenir un échec et mat contre la police française, il impose une partie de jeu de go dans toute l'Europe. Les forces de l'ordre sont vite dans l'impossibilité juridique et physique d'agir. Dénué de scrupules et de sens moral, rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter Les armes des deux détectives parisiens seront-elles plus efficaces ?