James Lovegrove
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He has been shortlisted for many awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Scribe Award. He won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Short Story in 2011, and the Dragon Award in 2020 for Firefly: The Ghost Machine. He has written many acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, including Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon. As well as writing books, he also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He lives in Eastbourne in the UK.
All Books By James Lovegrove
Firefly: Big Damn Hero
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.8(4740 ratings)
The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and beloved Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon
The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in airpower because the ground war was “too hot.” But the soldiers who were there insist that was not true …
While picking up a new cargo on Persephone, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats who suspect him of sabotaging the Independents during the war. As the rest of the crew struggle to locate him, Mal is placed on trial for his life, fighting compelling evidence that someone did indeed betray them to the Alliance all those years ago. As old comrades and old rivals crawl out of the woodwork, Mal must prove his innocence, but his captors are desperate and destitute, and will settle for nothing less than the culprit’s blood.
... Read moreFirefly: Life Signs
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.01(893 ratings)
The fifth original novel from the much-loved Space Western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV series and the movie Serenity.
Deadly disease
Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl’s Myeloma, a form of cancer that’s supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left.
A disreputable scientist
Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara’s condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet.
An infamous prison
On Atata planet, inmates are abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. What’s more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate the prison…
... Read moreFirefly: Magnificent Nine
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.05(1694 ratings)
The second original novel from the beloved Space Western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV series and the movie Serenity.
A cosmic cry for help
Captain Mal Reynolds is in a fix. He’d like nothing more than to find honest smuggling work that stays under the Alliance’s radar and keeps the good ship Serenity in the sky. But when an old flame of Jayne Cobb’s sends a desperate plea across the galaxy, his crew has other ideas.
A cut-throat bandit
On the arid, far-flung world of Thetis, the terrifying Elias Vandal is threatening to overrun the town of Coogan’s Bluff with his trigger-happy army. He wants control of the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin: their water supply.
The Magnificent Nine
When the crew land at the hardscrabble desert outpost, they discover two things: a savage outlaw gang who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and that Jayne’s former girlfriend, Temperance, is singlehandedly raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after she and Jayne parted ways. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud …
... Read moreFirefly: The Ghost Machine
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.76(1097 ratings)
The third original novel from the beloved Space Western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the TV series and the movie Serenity.
Some hot property
Mal’s crew desperately need another payday, but not desperately enough to transport a Blue Sun flightcase to Badger, no questions asked, when the area is swarming with Alliance spacecraft equally keen to regain the stolen property. Yet Jayne refuses to miss out, and sneaks the case aboard Serenity.
Lucid Dreams
Within hours of secreting the case Jayne suddenly finds himself back on the Cobb homestead with his brother Matty miraculously cured of the damplung. Wash is at the controls of the highest-spec cruiser money can buy, the billionaire head of a ‘verse-spanning business empire. All of the crew but River are soon immersed in vivid hallucinations of their deepest desires, while their bodies lie insensible on the ship.
Fantasies gone sour
Wash’s empire begins to crumble; the Cobb ranch is under attack by merciless bandits. As everyone’s daydreams turn nightmare, Serenity floats on a crash course towards a barren moon, with only River standing between the crew and certain oblivion.
... Read moreSherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.84(634 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove’s continues the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor …
1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their three-year-old son Harry.
Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to Sir Henry’s aid, and our heroes must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares. It seems that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all, as Holmes believed, and is hell-bent on revenge…
... Read moreSherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.91(2191 ratings)
The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly: Big Damn Hero.
It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe–eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty–is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit.
Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card …
Eve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound of mind, but it seems that something–or someone–is threatening her sanity. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realize that no one is beyond suspicion.
... Read moreSherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(666 ratings)
From the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon comes another beautifully presented seasonal mystery.1889. The First Terror.At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch’s curse from four hundred years earlier?1890. The Second Terror.A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts?1894. The Third Terror.A body is discovered at a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests?These three linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes’s deductive powers, and his skepticism about the supernatural, to the limit.
... Read moreSherlock Holmes: Gods of War
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(532 ratings)
1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a disappointment in love, and Beachy Head is notorious as a place where the desperate and depressed leap to their deaths. Holmes, however, suspects murder. As he and Watson investigate, they uncover a conspiracy with shocking ramifications.
... Read moreSherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Dust
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.87(179 ratings)
It is 1884, and when a fellow landlady finds her lodger poisoned, Mrs. Hudson turns to Sherlock Holmes.
The police suspect the landlady of murder, but Mrs. Hudson insists that her friend is innocent. Upon investigating, the companions discover that the lodger, a civil servant recently returned from India, was living in almost complete seclusion, and that his last act was to scrawl a mysterious message on a scrap of paper.
The riddles pile up as aged big game hunter Allan Quatermain is spotted at the scene of the crime when Holmes and Watson investigate. The famous man of mind and the legendary man of action will make an unlikely team in a case of corruption, revenge, and what can only be described as magic …
... Read moreSherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.91(230 ratings)
It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes’s new client is a High Court judge, whose free-spirited daughter has disappeared without a trace.
Holmes and Watson discover that the missing woman–Hannah Woolfson–was herself on the trail of a missing person, her close friend Sophia. Sophia was recruited to a group known as the Elysians, a quasi-religious sect obsessed with Ancient Greek myths and rituals, run by the charismatic Sir Philip Buchanan. Hannah has joined the Elysians under an assumed name, convinced that her friend has been murdered. Holmes agrees that she should continue as his agent within the secretive yet seemingly harmless cult, yet Watson is convinced Hannah is in terrible danger. For Sir Philip has dreams of improving humanity through classical ideals, and at any cost …
... Read moreSherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.82(628 ratings)
It’s the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, antimonarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide campaign of terror, but to what end? At the same time, a bizarrely garbed figure has been spotted on the rooftops and in the grimy back alleys of the capital. He moves with the extraordinary agility of a latter-day Spring-heeled Jack. He possesses weaponry and armor of unprecedented sophistication. He is known only by the name Baron Cauchemar, and he appears to be a scourge of crime and villainy. But is this masked man truly the force for good that he seems? Is he connected somehow to the bombings? Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson are about to embark on one of their strangest and most exhilarating adventures yet.
... Read moreSherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.9(338 ratings)
Man vs Machine
It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street, when he and Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford.
A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous computational device, which he claims is capable of analytical thought to rival the cleverest men alive. Naturally Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge. He and Watson travel to Oxford, where a battle of wits ensues between the great detective and his mechanical counterpart as they compete to see which of them can be first to solve a series of crimes, from a bloody murder to a missing athlete. But as man and machine vie for supremacy, it becomes clear that the Thinking Engine has its own agenda…
... Read moreThe Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(30 ratings)
It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R’lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is.
The detectives discover that the inmate was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River to capture the semi-mythical shoggoth. Yet how has he ended up in London, without his wits? And when the man is taken from Bedlam by forces beyond normal mortal comprehension, it becomes clear that there is far more to the case than one disturbed Bostonian. It is only by learning what truly happened on that fateful New England voyage that Holmes and Watson will uncover the truth, and learn who is behind the Miskatonic monstrosity …
... Read moreThe Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(30 ratings)
It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan, badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity.
Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close.
Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined, forces that can be summoned, if one is brave – or mad – enough to dare.
... Read moreThe Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(30 ratings)
The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft collide.
It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.
The companions retreat to Holmes’s farm on the Sussex Downs, and it is not long before a client comes calling. Three young women have disappeared from the nearby town of Newford, and the locals have no doubt who is responsible. For legend has it that strange amphibious creatures dwell in a city on the seabed, coming ashore every few centuries to take fresh captives. As Holmes and Watson seek out the terrifying interlopers, the scene is set for the final battle that will bring them face to face with the Sussex Sea-Devils, and perhaps with Cthulhu himself …
... Read moreThe Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.96(163 ratings)
Twelve sensational Sherlock Holmes short stories from a bestselling master of the genre
Maverick detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr. John Watson return in twelve thrilling short stories.
The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an otherworldly stone whose touch inflicts fatal bleeding; a hellish potion to unlock a person’s devilish psyche; a fiendishly clever, almost undetectable method of revenge and many more—including a brand-new Cthulhu Casebooks story.
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