multiple narrative perspectives
stories within a story
theme of moral dilemmas.
Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Shortlist.
Series by F.E. Higgins ,
There are 4 books in the Tales From The Sinister City series. The newest book is The Lunatic's Curse which came out in 2010.
Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses and make the dead speak.
As…
When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret…