The Empty Grave

15 hrs. 56 min.

Language Russian

Author Jonathan Stroud

Narrator Annie F. Murray

My name is Lucy Carlyle, and I work at the agency “Lockwood & Co.” There are only three of us: me, Anthony (that’s Lockwood), and George. We catch ghosts and save London from them. Actually, it only sounds simple—everything is much more complicated.

There are a great many ghosts and all kinds of them, and most of them are deadly dangerous. And even our super-weapons—rapiers, iron chains, and jars of Greek fire—aren’t always effective. Still, in our agency, there are no cowards.

Marissa Fittes really is alive. Her coffin was empty. Could she still be running that famous ghost-fighting agency in all of England? But how did she manage to live so long and look so young? Apparently we started asking too many questions, because threats began to be sent to our address—and then Fittes’s agency sent hired thugs to our house. Of course, unofficially. To escape a certain death, me and my friends need to go through the Other Side, the world of ghosts. This journey will demand too much from us, but maybe we’ll still get closer to uncovering the mystery of Marissa. As it’s known, her agency has been conducting experiments for many years by traveling to the Other Side. But we never imagined what terrible truth would be revealed to us. It seems we’ll soon learn the answer to the question—why ghosts have flooded our country…

5. The Empty Grave