Green Shoots

All Stella Hardy wants is a romantic country getaway with her artist boyfriend, Brophy. Instead, she must head to the Athol Goldwater Agricultural Prison (aka Arsehole Bogwater) to visit her jailbird brother, Ben. But Stella has barely set foot in the prison when a prisoner is found dead. Before she knows it, Stella finds herself tasked with investigating the suspicious death. Her old nemesis Minister for Justice Marcus Pugh is pressuring her to save his election-year bacon, and former gang member Percy Brash is providing a much more chilling form of pressure….

Somewhere in London, in a disused railway tunnel, live a family of Crud-Munchers, so different from humans that they have to remain in disguise for fear of being detected. At all costs, they must avoid the same terrible fate that befell their relative Bertie at the hands of mad scientist Rufus Snellville. The arrival of a close-knit and misunderstood gypsy family risks exposing the Crud-Munchers' whereabouts.