Since his father disappeared, Pin has been working for the local undertaker, but then he meets the Bone Magician, who can raise corpses and make the dead speak. The more he finds out about the Bone Magician, the more dangerous his life becomes. 'Like Dickens, Higgins relishes her descriptions of the grotesqueries of the city. Young readers with a taste for the macabre will find it deliciously scary' "Observer". Ages: 9+.