Lockwood & Co: The Hollow Boy: Book 3 (Lockwood & Co., 3)

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Part of the book involves Lucy exploring and developing her ability to talk to ghosts, often by putting her own team at risk and having to learn lessons about keeping her friends safe despite her curiosity etc. The old couple knew their home was haunted and had locked in the boarders at night, knowing the Changer would get them. Well you know when the next book in a series is about to come out and you can't remember all the main details of the previous books? Ghosts are all over the place and it's up to children to defend the British isle from this nasty infestation (cause adults can't see them, you see).

But since there was so much time between me finishing the second book and starting the third, I completely forgot what the cliffhanger even was. There is a new spirit of openness in the team now that Lockwood has shared some of his childhood secrets, and Lucy is feeling more and more as if her true home is at Portland Row. Secrets followed Lockwood about like the flapping of his coat, and it was nice to be close enough to feel them brush against me too.In May 1999, Stroud published his first children's novel, Buried Fire, which was the first of a line of fantasy/mythology children's books. But let's put it this way; there are more ghosts in this book than any of the previous two combined. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines.

For another - and this is central to the book's character conflict - Stroud introduces another female character.

I expected at least the cases had some kind of tiny connection to the main plot, but usually they didn't. All those three were really creepy and the Chelsea outbreak in particular immediately had my full attention.