Bøker av Karen J Carlisle

A dark mystery on the high seas. Ever wonder what happened to James Findlay (aka Jack the Ripper) after 'Doctor Jack'?Now on his way to Australia by steamship, and temporarily free from the Men in Grey's control, James is determined to continue his experiments. Until a murder is discovered. He must use his medical training to hide the truth, and discover why passengers begin to fall ill - or the ship will be quarantined, and his work discovered. But time is running out. A mysterious woman threatens to uncover his secrets. Has 'Jack' finally met his match? A James Findlay mini-adventure. 'Blood Ties' follows on from the original 'Doctor Jack' novella in the first book of 'The Adventures of Viola Stewart' series.

Miss Mathilda Meriwether has a secret. Actually, she has several. One of them has shaped her adult life. Another now controls it.Her Majesty Queen Victoria has control of the Empire. She is the Empire, and creator of its secrets. Sir Avery works for The Department of Curiosities - the keepers of secrets - especially if they are useful to the Empire.When Tillie finds herself in the employment of The Department of Curiosities, she realises this is the perfect opportunity to uncover the truth she has been searching for. But the Queen has other plans for her. A steampunk adventure of heroines, mad scientists, traitors, and secrets...All for the good of the Empire.Second Edition.

Five short tales set in a world of steampunk and alternate history, with adventures from England to the Antipodes. Here be villains, gadgets, mechanical creatures, secrets and conspiracies. All in time for tea. Stories from the world of 'The Adventures of Viola Stewart' and 'The Department of Curiosities'. All new characters.

Viola Stewart returns for a third set of adventures. Viola needs a holiday.But even at the beach, or partying on the Grand Tour of Europe, there are things afoot. The Gadgeteers are lobbying for merchant rights in the Empire. The Men in Grey are keen to stretch their influence beyond British shores.And Viola is alone.Her past has returned to haunt her? Is there anyone she can trust?This is the final book in 'The Adventures of Viola Stewart' Victorian steampunk mysteries.(Edition 2)

Aunt Enid's back, but something's changed...A deal with fairies... to solve a mystery... and prevent a war.Fairies and magic: It's all real!Enid Turner is invited to a picnic in honour of the creator of the world's most famous detective, currently on a lecture tour in Adelaide, where they are caught in a web of treachery and betrayal from the Otherworlds.It's up to Aunt Enid and the Protectors, with a little help from the self-appointed Fairy Hunter, to solve the mystery, return the kidnapped heir and save the humans from Otherworldly retribution. It's now a race to save the Earth from becoming a battleground for a magical war.

In 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle had decided he would put an end to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes so that he could concentrate on "more serious" literary endeavours. Thus the great Professor Moriarty was born, a character designed solely to give London's greatest detective a worthy death in The Final Problem, what was originally planned as Conan Doyle's last hoorah to the character.Sherlock Holmes could not be so easily defeated however, not even by the man who created him, and public outcry forced Conan Doyle to return to the character once more, and he soon set to work on The Hound of the Baskervilles.Similarly, we too have been unable to leave our own Sherlockian adventures where we last left them, and have challenged seven Australian authors to continue the daunting task of writing a Sherlock story, where the great man himself is conspicuously absent. The resulting work continues to be utterly fascinating, and we still find that, even in his absence, Sherlock Holmes is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Daemons, fairies, magic: it's all real!The Otherworld is bleeding through cracks into our world. And Adelaide is ground zero. Something is coming. Something dark - trading souls for passage. And only one person stands between The Dark and the fate of the world.Aunt Enid is just your average seventy-something year old. She loves to cook, is a regular at bingo and spends hours in her garden, talking to her army of garden gnomes and fussing over the colour of her hydrangeas...When people start disappearing, her great niece, Sally, is drawn into a secret world and soon discovers her great aunt is a Protector Extraordinaire. Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire is the first book in 'The Aunt Enid Mysteries', the first series in 'The Otherworlds Chronicles'.