OverLondon
About this ebook
C.K. (Caimh) McDonnell author of the Stranger Times and Bunny McGarry series.
"If Spike Milligan and Terry Pratchett had ever got round to a collaboration it might read like OverLondon.”
Heide Goody author of the Oddjobs and Sam Applewhite series.
“The most fun you can have in the safety of a book. A rollicking good read!”
Kaaron Warren, award winning Australian author.
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A Rollicking Comic-Fantasy Whodunnit with a Tudor Twist!
Priests from OverLondon's Church of Vengeful Acquisition are exploding. Is the cause divine retribution, ballistic undergarments or something more sinister? If only the city had a professional private investigator…
Luckily, notorious pirate—turned privateer—Captain Alex Reign, has just narrowly escaped the hang man’s noose to establish the Reign Agency in Drury Lane. She needs cash fast and will take any job, even if failure means facing an inconveniently messy end. But what's a little danger to a professional swashbuckler?
Armed with nothing but her roguish wit, her reliably unreliable crew and a rogue artificer experiencing a mortal crisis, Alex is convinced they'll have this crime solved and the reward pocketed by teatime.
To solve their first case, all they must do is survive while navigating rampaging nuns, clockwork horrors, confectionary gangsters, piratical florists, malevolent urchins, military-grade statuary, weaponized blasphemy and sexual whales.
How hard can it possibly be?
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About the author
George Penney is a best-selling comedy fiction author who was once saved from being a bunny-slipper-wearing academic by an unexpected three book publishing deal. She’s a driven workaholic who spends her spare time voraciously reading and researching for fun—when she’s not actively trying to wind up her partner-in-crime and co-writer, Tony Johnson.
George has lived a determinedly eccentric life, spanning over fifty places around the globe and blames her life choices on watching the Indiana Jones movies at an impressionable age. While no rolling boulders were available, she’s found her fair share of adventure, including being chased by a rock wielding mob, being nearly rammed off the road in a high-speed chase, and almost being poisoned by a spitting cobra. She once rescued a kitten from a troop of hungry monkeys.
She loves English, Scottish and Irish comedy, will fight to her death for a morning cup of tea, would cuddle an entire zoo if she could, adores staying up late debating philosophy, enjoys world cinema, absurd anime and new music every day. She considers both Ripley and the Alien Queen to be strong female role models.
She is utterly obsessed with sharks and would like to be eaten on her hundredth birthday by a low-flying great white.
Tony Johnson considers writing to be the third most fun thing you can do sitting down, and has co-written multiple best-selling comedic novels with his writing partner, George Penney.
In a past life he worked as an engineer, hammering a creative shaped brain into an analytic shaped career. During this time, he got to play with most kinds of radiation, chaotic simulation, the dark arts of metallurgy, neural networks, competitive bacteria and nearly exploded once or twice. He can’t fix anything smaller than a house that doesn’t operate at steel bursting pressures and tries to fit a normal distribution to everything. One day he would like to train an AI to replace CEOs.
Tony has lived all over the planet, from deserts to rain forests, and enjoys being a stranger in a strange land, as opposed to being a deeply weird suburbanite. He once sold everything he owned to start travelling the world because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
He loves astrophysics, particle physics, science fiction and fantasy, techno-utopianism, excessive complexity and 99.9% of cats. One day he will mash together enough tabletop role-playing games for them to achieve sentience.
