The Moondog series features a praeternatural detective from the English Roma community who investigates mysteries that are outside the purview of conventional detectives and typically fall somewhere between the ordinary and the incredible.
Neil Mach’s Moondog series showcases extraordinary narratives, superhuman foes, and everyday characters that become influenced by supernatural occurrences that lead them to engage in magical and, often, pseudo-scientific endeavours.
The novels are based in authentic English settings and set in the present day.
The *Moondog Series* overview
Moondog and the Reed Leopard
Moondog receives a call to visit Hugh-Lupus, a run-down English town, to handle a mischievous alien big cat that's been causing mayhem in the community.
Moondog is aided by a clerical officer who works at the local police station. His helper is being pestered by a constable in the workplace. Together they must solve the big cat mystery and outfox the girl's annoying and, perhaps, dangerous stalker.
Moondog and the Dark Arches
Moondog is summoned to the peculiar Vale of Amity, where dogs and people have been leaping from the town bridge.
His helper is a librarian who can miraculously project herself into another person’s body. Working together, they discover numerous malicious deeds and bring the culprits to justice.
Moondog and the Scarce Vapour
Moondog is called to a university in the west of England where a promising post-graduate student has made an astonishing fossil discovery.
In the middle of her excavations, the student is confronted by the ‘spirit’ of her late professor who alerts her of an impending disaster.
After getting this information, Moondog understands he needs to sneak into a nearby top-secret military base to shut down a risky experiment that's been affecting the universe’s interdimensional balance.
Moondog and the Galium Satyr
An oligarch and his mad-scientist partner are acquiring large tracts of land in Scotland, displacing the original inhabitants and introducing exotic species to ‘re-wild’ the area they fenced-off.
Moondog discovers they have caught an endangered species, a Caspian Calderagon, and plan to set it free in their re-wilding park, while also kidnapping young girls to feed to the creature.
Moondog needs to break through the advanced security systems at the park to locate the dragon and children before they are further endangered. Once inside the re-wilding park, he must either outrun or out-think a furious satyr that’s been causing chaos in the wilderness.
