Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Books 1 to 5 - Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris Audiobook

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Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Books 1 to 5

Written by: Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Narrated by: James Langton

Book 1 - Phoenix Rising
Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Evil is most assuredly afoot - and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade… and a librarian.

These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood

and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences - the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling - will not allow its

agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to

let the matter rest… and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.

For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun - he with his

encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices - must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot… or see England fall to the Phoenix!

©2011 Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

Book 2 - The Janus Affair

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Evildoers beware! Retribution is at hand, thanks to Britain’s best-kept secret agents!

Certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain’s

latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance … with each case going

inexplicably unexamined by the Crown.

The fate of England is once again in the hands of an ingenious archivist paired with a beautiful, fearless lady of adventure. And though their foe be

fiendishly clever, so then is Mr. Books … and Miss Braun still has a number of useful and unusual devices hidden beneath her petticoats.

©2012 Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers

Book 3 - Dawn’s Early Light

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents.

But what starts as a simple mission in the States - intended to keep them out of trouble - suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has

connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen. Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun

and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the

fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the

Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before.

©2014 Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris (P)2014 Tantor

Book 4 - The Diamond Conspiracy

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home.

But when Braun’s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish. Braun’s streetwise team of child informants, the Ministry Seven, is in grave

peril, and Books and Braun must return to England immediately.

But when the intrepid agents finally arrive in London, the situation is even more dire than they imagined. The Ministry has been disavowed, and the Department

of Imperial Inconveniences has been called in to decommission its agents in a most deadly fashion. The plan reeks of the Maestro’s dastardly scheming. Only

this time he has a dangerous new ally - a duplicitous doctor whose pernicious poisons have infected the highest levels of society, reaching even the queen

herself.

©2015 Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris (P)2015 Tantor

Book 5 - The Ghost Rebellion

Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins

The chase is on! After rescuing Queen Victoria from the clutches of the Maestro, Agents Eliza D. Braun and Wellington Books are in hot pursuit of Dr. Henry

Jekyll. While he continues his experiments on the aristocracy of Europe, he leaves a trail of chaos and despair in his wake. However, when Eliza and Wellington

run him to ground in India, they are forced to come face to face with ghosts from the past, and the realities of empire.

Meanwhile, Ministry agents Brandon Hill and Bruce Campbell travel deep into Russia hunting down a rare ingredient to save Queen Victoria’s life. Amid the cold

they uncover a threat from the revitalized House of Usher that comes directly from their new Chairman.

All in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences will find their allegiances in question, and their mettle tested as a new dastardly era of international intrigue

dawns.

©2016 Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris (P)2016 Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris