The Empty Grave
core novel 2017 Lockwood & Co
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.62 (30,993 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 448 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781484778722 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The Empty Grave is the fifth and final book in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. series. Following the revelations of The Creeping Shadow, Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, and George Cubbins have grown suspicious of the powerful Fittes Agency and the wider psychic-detection industry that profits from London's ghostly Problem. Convinced that the official explanation for the epidemic hides something the authorities do not want known, the team plans a perilous, unauthorized break-in at the Fittes family mausoleum to search for evidence. Their investigation draws the attention of dangerous rivals and forces them to rely on unlikely allies, including the sardonic skull Lucy has learned to converse with, as they edge toward a confrontation with the secretive figures who have shaped the agency world from behind the scenes for decades.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lockwood & Co
- Series: Lockwood & Co core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jonathan Stroud
Notes
- From the series record (Lockwood & Co): A completed 5-book YA supernatural-fantasy sequence, separate from Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence, following a small London ghost-hunting agency during a decades-long haunting epidemic.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Lockwood & Co: position 5 of 5: previous The Creeping Shadow (2016)
Sources
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