Title: Phoenix Rising SubTitle: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel  Author: Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris Publisher: HarperCollins Imprint: Voyager Pub Date: 05/01/2011 Category:  ADULT: Steampunk Fantasy. Phoenix Rising is a great read, a tightly written, fascinating novel with colourful characters, plenty of action, wonderful inventions and an intiguing puzzle to solve. The blurb These are dark days indeed in Victoria's England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences-- the Crown's clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling -- will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest. . .and she's prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the … [Read more...]