Anthony O’Neill Books In Order

Novels

  1. Scheherazade (2001)
  2. The Lamplighter (2003)
  3. The Unscratchables (2009)
  4. The Dark Side (2016)
  5. The Empire of Eternity (2017)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Seek (2017)
  7. The Devil Upstairs (2019)

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Anthony O’Neill Books Overview

The Lamplighter

Edinburgh, 1860s: At the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls, clever orphan Evelyn Todd spins fantastic tales of The Lamplighter who pas*ses her window nightly. Her imaginings, forbidden by the home’s strict governor, are all but forgotten when Evelyn is spirited away by a man who claims to be her father. Years later, a wave of vicious killings stains the city’s cobbled streets. Three men from different worlds are drawn to the sensational case: a detective hungry for recognition, a disillusioned professor of logic, and a strapping gravedigger. Their paths lead to Evelyn Todd, a woman haunted by dreams of the murders and of a mysterious lamplighter. As her nighttime terrors begin to illuminate the face of the dreadful predator, this unusual trio of investigators uses reason, intuition, philosophy, and luck in a hunt that rapidly hurtles past the bounds of conventional detection.

The Unscratchables

Animal Farm meets The Simpsons in this inventive twist on the hard boiled detective novel, featuring a world made up exclusively of cats, dogs, and one ruthless fox…
Bull terrier Crusher McNash is a no nonsense homicide detective who eats out of the can and only bathes when his boss orders him to. He’s just been thrownaboneaboutagruesome case involving Rottweilers torn apart by a savage killer, and the only lead he s been able to sniff out is an impression of movement at the murder scene. Crusher suspects the killer is a cat, and there s nothing he hates more than the whole cream lapping, wool juggling, pajama wearing, fence sitting, bird torturing, furball coughing lot of them. But he ll have to start barking up a different tree if he wants help solving this case as his partner on this case is soymilk drinking, pressed suit wearing Cassius Lap, an agent for the FBI Feline Bureau of Investigation. As this odd couple puts their paws together, their investiga tion takes them from the bow els of the Kennel into the tony streets of Kathattan. Soon, they begin to uncover a vast con spiracy involving a cat who has been trained as a super killer, capable of growing in size and ferocity and killing any dog who gets in his way and who may be working for a media baron fox. But they ll need to unravel the conspiracy, and quickly, if they want to stop the next killing before it s too late. Witty and irresistibly entertaining, this genre bending mystery boldly mixes human and animal sensibilities in an entertaining satire of our cur rent society.

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