The Further Adventures of Horatio Lyle

Did I mention I have a pseudonym?

Oh yes, Kate Griffin is not my real name… however, since my real name is hardly a state secret, being fairly easily accessible on this website, I’ll keep this brief and say hello!  As Catherine Webb I write books for kids and young adults and as this is my damn website and I’ll use it to say that my latest Catherine Webb book – the Dream Thief – was published a few days ago.  And I’m not saying that if you like Kate Griffin you’ll like Catherine Webb (that’s probably one of the most schizophrenic sentences I’ve ever written, and let’s face it, writing characters like Matthew Swift that’s saying something) – but you might!  And you’ll never know until you’ve gone out there, bought a copy, or maybe several, of the Horatio Lyle series, and a few for your friends just to make sure you’ve got a decent sample to do comparisons with, and found out.

In case you’re wondering, the Horatio Lyle series is about a Mr Horatio Lyle (go figure), a Victorian inventor/detective who spends an inordinate amount of time dabbling with mysteries, stepping on toes, only some of which are human, causing trouble and blowing things up.  Admittedly he never plans on blowing things up, but there just comes a point in every chemical-toting scientific detective up against the odds and great evils in a city at the height of the industrial revolution when even a decent upstanding citizen has to say ‘ah, to hell with it’ and reach for the nitrates.