Ghost buster

Dan has a new assignment. He has to find out about the haunting in London’s tallest skyscraper. Can he do it?

October 08, 2015 04:03 pm | Updated 04:05 pm IST

Dan and the Shard of Ice by Thomas Taylor

Dan and the Shard of Ice by Thomas Taylor

The Shard is haunted. London’s tallest skyscraper has become a screaming tower of psychic energy and freaky poltergeist activity, and guess who has to sort it out? Yes! Dan and his ghostly side-kick Simon! They have to take on the enraged spirit that has a 400-year-old grudge against the world. They also have to contend with a dodgy TV psychic and his film crew, a mystical bag lady and an 87-storey drop to a very messy death.

This book is the third in the series. The first two were Dan and the Caverns of Bone and Dan and the Dead

About the author

Thomas Taylor was born in Norwich, England. However, he grew up in Wales, in a small village by the sea. He says, his childhood was spent mostly drawing, something he did during Math class. He later went to Art School and then began to illustrate books. Later, he began to write books himself. His first commission was the cover for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling.

He now lives on the south coast of England and has two sons. He says, “Sometimes they ask for help with their Math homework, so now they’re learning to draw too!”

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