Best Selling Books by John Allison

The Eisner Award winning team of John Allison and Max Sarin return to the world of Giant Days for a new series about everyone’s favorite child detective; Charlotte Grote. Nineteen year old Charlotte Grote has her whole life ahead of her; headed straight to Oxford and a future as a real detective—until she’s framed for murder! Given the choice between going to jail basically forever or joining the police, Lottie decides to hit the beat, all while trying to find the real murderer. Lottie may have been running rings about the police since her 9th birthday, but she’s never been on this side of the security tape. Could the future of law enforcement be 5’2” with an extremely strong bangs game? Yes. Very yes.

Introducing your girlfriend to your family can be difficult, but it’s much worse when that girlfriend is Ingrid.

Attempting to raise funds for Christmas presents, Daisy and Ed Gemmell take a job at a “Winter Village” that turns out to be a borderline-illegal shambles. Can Daisy save Christmas? Or should she just go home?

Lottie gets a new lead on her case—aka the murder she was framed for—but with her work at Scotland Yard consisting of photocopying and coffee runs, how will she find time to pursue the true criminal?

With the attempted murder Lottie was framed for still under investigation, and the victim still in a coma, Lottie is running out of time to prove her innocence. And the police just enlisted Lottie for a sting operation at London’s best casino! Will Lottie be able to foil a heist, prove her innocence, and keep up her hair game in just one night?

It’s time for Esther to finish her final dissertation on “The Liminal Spaces Of The Great American Novel 1959-1980” but when inspiration dries up, she heads home to Tackleford for Easter. It’s not America, and it’s not 1959, but her now deserted small town is beginning to feel distinctly liminal.

As Easter break looms, Esther and Susan are forced to address Ingrid''s constant crimes against household decency.

What''s the secret of the shed in the back of the girls'' house, and why are strange men visiting it in the middle of the night?!

Jane and Heather are finally ready to start filming their extra-dimensional documentary. There’s only one problem: their guide, Gardt, is so ridiculous looking that he completely ruins the credibility of any shot he’s in. It might be time for Jane and Heather to give their monster bud the slip and venture off on their own!

Esther becomes fixated on Valentine’s Day as a marker of her romantic failure, and decides to fully activate her drama field for the first time in a long time, in an attempt to “Win Big At Love”. It’s going to be great. No, really.

McGraw puts faith in his and Daisy''s "unique understanding" while trying to deal with the fact he is a low down double-dealing dirty cheat whose name is now mud in the influential Spanish community.

Ed attempts to get over his crush on Esther by working at the student paper, but stumbles into even more embarrassing romantic difficulty.

Esther''s old school friend "Big Lindsay" comes to visit with her baby, but watching the kid and being nice to the insatiable party girl begins to wear on everyone.

Susan and McGraw attend his brother’s wedding, and we meet the family that put the iron backbone in Giant Days’ most moustached male.

In a follow-up to Holiday Special 2017, Esther goes for a job interview in London and reunites with her old friend Shelley Winters. While Esther covets Shelley’s metropolitan existence, Shelley is already tired of the rat race and her high pressure civil service job, and longs to publish brain-rotting books. So while Shelly tries to prepare Esther for her interview, Esther steers Shelley towards a glittering future among the literati!

The new year brings the all the joys and near-drownings of young love in The Case of the Fire Inside, the latest volume of Bad Machinery! Sonny meets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself, while Mildred falls for the bad boy of Saturday detention. But can either of them succeed in the face of jealous exes, overprotective fathers, and the persistent tide of DESTINY? What is a "selkie"? Is a Morton''s toe fatal? And can Dark Rotuss truly save the galaxy?

From Giant Days'' John Allison! A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. New curate Billie Baker does her best to reach out to the small coastal parish''s wayward youth, but when a supernatural rain brings forth an aquatic demon, she finds that she doesn''t see eye-to-eye with her boss''s way of dealing with things.

Under house arrest, Lottie has started to make a few friends in the criminal lifestyle, and is even working on a new, exciting casino heist case with her police liaison...but has she lost sight of what really matters—proving her own innocence?

A supernatural tale of friendship, the devil, and moral gray areas. Renewable energy, imperiled birds, and a crowd of NIMBYs converge at the heart of this parish''s latest crisis as curate Billie and Church of Satan priestess Maggie battle with divine windmills and their own internal dilemmas.