"Rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge's miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path."

"A powerful and unusual homage to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. A volatile milieu of characters whose various schemes converge around the compelling thief upon his return to London."

"A darkly entertaining exploration of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley."

"A thrilling reimagining of Oliver Twist, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue."

"The unforgettable literary detective becomes apprentice to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Great Expectations to rescue the love of hr life."

"About the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true."

"On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, Mr. Watts, sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations."

"Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind."

"Twenty years after he was famously converted to kindness, Ebenezer Scrooge still roams the streets of London, spreading Christmas cheer, much to the annoyance of his creditors, nephew, and his employee Bob Cratchit."

"Featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, But when literary characters start causing trouble throughout the city and threatening to destroy the world, he learns he's not the only one with his ability..."

"In an attempt to uncover Dickens’s final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock through a dangerous web of literary lions and drug dealers, sadistic thugs and blue bloods, and competing members of Dickens’s inner circle."

"Author Anne Perry and ten of today's masters of mystery present stories inspired by Dickens and his immortal classics."

"A fictionalized account of the secret thirteen-year love affair between author Charles Dickens and actress Ellen Ternan, as told in the alternating voices of Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth, mystery writer Wilkie Collins, and Ternan herself."

"In the winter of 1835, young Charles Dickens is a journalist on the rise who feels compelled to investigate a mysterious death within the upper crust."

"Dickens meets the mysterious Eleanor Lovejoy, who propels him on a Scrooge-like journey that tests everything he believes about generosity, friendship, ambition, and love."

"Based on actual biographical events, Drood explores the still-unresolved mysteries of one of our greatest writer’s dark final days."