Kate Thompson Books In Order

Switchers Books In Order

  1. Switchers (1997)
  2. Midnights Choice (1998)
  3. Wild Blood (1999)

Missing Link Books In Order

  1. The Missing Link (2000)
  2. Only Human (2001)
  3. Origins (2003)

New Policeman Trilogy Books In Order

  1. The New Policeman (2005)
  2. The Last of the High Kings (2007)
  3. The White Horse Trick (2009)

Novels

  1. Down Among the Gods (1997)
  2. Thin Air (1999)
  3. An Act of Worship (2000)
  4. The Beguilers (2001)
  5. The Alchemist’s Apprentice (2002)
  6. Annan Water (2004)
  7. The Fourth Horseman (2006)
  8. Creature of the Night (2008)
  9. Highway Robbery (2008)
  10. Wanted! (2010)
  11. Most Wanted (2010)

Collections

  1. Out of This World (2000)

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Kate Thompson Books Overview

Switchers

When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.

Midnights Choice

Read by Niamh Cusack
5 hours 1 minute, 4 cassettes

Since Tess’s friend Kevin left the human world to become a phoenix, Tess has felt increasingly lonely and isolated. Soon it will be Tess’s fifteenth birthday, the age at which she must finally decide what form she will take for the rest of her life; if she chooses, she too, can become a phoenix and join Kevin in his seemingly perfect existence. But everything changes when Kevin is captured by a local zoo. Tess is introduced to a world unknown to her before, a world ruled by vampires, darkness, and menacing forces that threaten to change her own life forever.

In this spellbinding sequel to Switchers, Tess is introduced to a world unknown to her before, a world ruled by vampires, darkness, and menacing forces that threaten to change her own life forever. Tess is finally forced to decide her destiny and choose between the forces of day and night, and good and evil.

Wild Blood

A paddleboat steamer is not exactly Frankie and Devin’s chosen form of transportation. But when they find themselves in Jules Vernes’s Around the World in Eighty Days, they figure they had better get used to it! Frankie and Devin join Phileas Fogg on his crazy adventure to beat an 80 day deadline to circle the globe. Rescuing a princess, fighting off savages, and engaging in duels are all in an 80 days’ work. Oh, what a trip!

The Missing Link

The first book in a trilogy about terrifying genetic experiments. Danny is different. He’s slower than other kids his age, and prone to violent outbursts. But when Danny runs off to find his biological mother, his older stepbrother Christie impulsively follows him. Along the way the two boys are joined by a runaway girl, a bird, and a dog that can speak to humans. However, nothing can prepare them for what they learn when they finally locate Danny’s mother at her laboratory, Fourth World. It seems Danny’s mother has been performing experiments secret experiments with terrifying genetic significance…

Only Human

Christie and his friends continue their search for the missing link in the faraway Himalayas, where the answers may be found with the elusive and mysterious Yeti. Their journey leaves Danny battling his overwhelming longing for the sea, and Danny’s half sister Sandy fighting for her father’s approval. The experience will bring out the best and worst in the group and eventually compel each of them to ask the ultimate question: What does it mean to be human?

The New Policeman

Who knows where the time goes? There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When J.J.’s mother says time’s what she really wants for her birthday, J.J. decides to find her some. He’s set himself up for an impossible task…
until a neighbor reveals a secret. There’s a place where time stands still at least, it’s supposed to. J.J. can make the journey there, but he’ll have to vanish from his own life to do so. Can J.J. find the leak between the two worlds? Will a shocking rumor about his family’s past come back to haunt him? And what does it all have to do with the village’s new policeman…
?

The Last of the High Kings

Traveling to the land of eternal youth was the only way J.J. Liddy could stop time from leaking from his world to T’ir na n’Og. But fifteen years after returning from the land of the faeries, J.J. wonders if that long ago visit is responsible for the strange things now happening to those around him. Why does his daughter Jenny roam barefoot through the wilds, when she should be in school? When did the mysterious white goat begin to patrol the hillside? What is the secret project that J.J.’s son Donal is attempting? And who is the ghost guarding the stone beacon at the top of the mountain and why has Jenny befriended him? Finding answers to these questions will take J.J. and his family on the most important and dangerous journey of their lives. If they fail, it will undo all the good that J.J. accomplished fifteen years ago. But if they succeed, they will defeat the forces that are gathering to destroy all of mankind, and finally secure the future of The Last of the High Kings.

Down Among the Gods

Two lonely people, a chance meeting at an adult education class, an almost instant attraction. But why do they keep misunderstanding each other, missing each other? What is it that conspires to keep Jessie and Patrick apart? This is an urban romance with a difference; a tale of mortals acted by immortals.

The Beguilers

In Rilka’s village, it isn’t safe to go out after dark. That’s when The Beguilers drift through the streets, tempting people to follow them. Everyone knows their power they hypnotize their victims and ultimately drive them to their death. When Rilka decides to capture a beguiler, her family and friends mourn her as though she is already dead. In the course of her lonely, danger filled journey, Rilka struggles to keep her strength and her sanity. She is ultimately rewarded with knowledge that will change life in the village forever. Rilka’s fierce independence will resonate with teens as they become mesmerized by this utterly unique quest story.

Creature of the Night

A HOUSE WITH A SECRET An unanswered question: Who is the Creature in the Night? Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves thefamily to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. Teens will be captivated by this spooky novel about the darkness that lurks in forgotten corners and tough teenagers.

Highway Robbery

The rider sprang off as light as a cat and pulled the reins over the horse’s head. Then he marched straight over to me and put them into my hand. ‘Hold the mare for me, lad. And when I come back, I’ll give you a golden guinea.’ A dark stranger leaves his magnificent horse in the care of a boy he’s never met. As dusk falls, others offer to pay the boy handsomely for the animal. Then soldiers arrive, demanding to know where the horse’s owner has gone. Could the stranger be the notorious Dick Turpin, known for his daring holdups and amazing exploits? Is the horse the legendary Black Bess? And will the boy ever see the reward he’s been promised? There’s mischief in the air, but it isn’t entirely clear who’s causing it.

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