Torchwood Series by Dan Abnett, David Llewellyn, Guy Adams, Andy Lane, John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman, Peter Anghelides, Sarah Pinborough, Mark Morris, Phil Ford, James Goss, Trevor Baxendale, James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, Gary Russell

3.66 · 204 ratings
  • Another Life (Torchwood #1)
    #1

    Another Life (Torchwood #1)

    Peter Anghelides

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2007

    From Cardiff, Wales, the Torchwood team fights aliens. Captain Jack Harkness, from UK BBC Doctor Who TV series leads Gwen Cooper, and Toshiko Sato to a monster in a bathroom, a mystery at an army base, and stolen nuclear fuel rods. Meanwhile, Owen Harper vanishes from the hub, when a Second Reality game leads him to an ex-girlfriend.

  • Border Princes (Torchwood #2)
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    Border Princes (Torchwood #2)

    Dan Abnett

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 2007

    The End of the World began on a Thursday night in October, just after eight in the evening...The Amok is driving people out of their minds, turning them into zombies and causing riots in the streets. A solitary diner leaves a Cardiff restaurant, his mission to protect the Principal leading him to a secret base beneath a water tower... more

  • Slow Decay (Torchwood #3)
    #3

    Slow Decay (Torchwood #3)

    Andy Lane

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2007

    When Torchwood track an energy surge to a Cardiff nightclub, the team finds the police are already at the scene. Five teenagers have died in a fight, and lying among the bodies is an extraterrestrial device. Next morning, they discover the corpse of a Weevil, its face and neck eaten away, seemingly by human teeth. And on the streets of Cardiff, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary hunger is attacking people and eating her victims... more

  • Something in the Water (Torchwood #4)
    #4

    Something in the Water (Torchwood #4)

    Trevor Baxendale

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2008

    Dr Bob Strong's GP surgery has been treating a lot of coughs and colds recently, far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob thinks there's something up but he can't think what. He seems to have caught it himself, whatever it is - he's starting to cough badly and there are flecks of blood in his hanky.Saskia Harden has been found on a number of occasions submerged in ponds or canals but alive and seemingly none the worse for wear... more

  • Trace Memory (Torchwood #5)
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    Trace Memory (Torchwood #5)

    David Llewellyn

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2008

    Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crate is offloaded by a group of local dockers it explodes, killing all but one; a young Butetown lad called Michael Bellini. Fifty-eight years later a radioactive source somewhere inside Torchwood leads the team to discover the same Michael Bellini, still young and dressed in his 1950s clothes, cowering in the vaults... more

  • The Twilight Streets (Torchwood #6)
    #6

    The Twilight Streets (Torchwood #6)

    Gary Russell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2008

    There's a part of the city that no one much goes to, a collection of rundown old houses and gloomy streets. No one stays there long, and no one can explain why - something's not quite right there.Now the Council is renovating the district, and a new company is overseeing the work. There will be street parties and events to show off the newly gentrified neighbourhood: clowns and face-painters for the kids, magicians for the adults - the street entertainers of Cardiff, out in force... more

  • Torchwood: Pack Animals (Torchwood #7)
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    Torchwood: Pack Animals (Torchwood #7)

    Peter Anghelides

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2008

    The hunters become the hunted…Shopping for wedding gifts is enjoyable, unless like Gwen you witness a Weevil massacre in the shopping centre. A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech. And Halloween is a day of fun and frights, before unspeakable monsters invade the streets of Cardiff and it's no longer a trick or a treat for the terrified population... more

  • Skypoint (Torchwood #8)
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    Skypoint (Torchwood #8)

    Phil Ford

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2008

    The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When Torchwood discover that residents have been going missing from the tower block, one of the team gets her dream assignment. Soon, SkyPoint's latest newly married tenants are moving in... more

  • Almost Perfect (Torchwood #9)
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    Almost Perfect (Torchwood #9)

    James Goss

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2008

    Emma is 30, single and frankly desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but another evening of unsuccessful speed-dating. But now she has a new weapon in her quest for Mr Right. And it's made her almost perfect.Gwen Cooper woke up this morning expecting the unexpected. As usual. She went to work and found a skeleton at a table for two and a colleague in a surprisingly glamorous dress. Perfect.Ianto Jones woke up this morning with no memory of last night... more

  • Into the Silence (Torchwood #10)
    #10

    Into the Silence (Torchwood #10)

    Sarah Pinborough

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2009

    The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they've been dissolved...With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff... more

  • Bay of the Dead (Torchwood #11)
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    Bay of the Dead (Torchwood #11)

    Mark Morris

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2009

    When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk...Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen yacht is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene... more

  • The House That Jack Built (Torchwood #12)
    #12

    The House That Jack Built (Torchwood #12)

    Guy Adams

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 2009

    Jackson Leaves - an Edwardian house in Penylan.Built 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented. Left in good condition to Rob and Julia by Rob's late aunt.It's an ordinary sort of a house. Except for the way the rooms don't stay in the same places. And the strange man that turns up in the airing cupboard. And the apparitions. And the temporal surges that attract the attentions of Torchwood... more

  • Risk Assessment (Torchwood #13)
    #13

    Risk Assessment (Torchwood #13)

    James Goss

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2009

    'Are you trying to tell me, Captain Harkness, that the entire staff of Torchwood Cardiff now consists of yourself, a woman in trousers and a tea boy?' Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it's happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad?Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they're losing badly... more

  • The Undertaker's Gift (Torchwood #14)
    #14

    The Undertaker's Gift (Torchwood #14)

    Trevor Baxendale

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2009

    The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They're suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won't tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has been sent to remove Captain Jack Harkness.It's been a busy week in Cardiff. The Hub's latest guest is a translucent, amber jelly carrying a lethal electrical charge. Record numbers of aliens have been coming through the Rift, and Torchwood could do without any more problems... more

  • Consequences (Torchwood #15)
    #15

    Consequences (Torchwood #15)

    James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough, David Llewellyn

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2009

    Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions... more

  • First Born (Torchwood #16)
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    First Born (Torchwood #16)

    James Goss

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2011

    Gwen and Rhys must protect their daughter as they stand alone in the defence of the Earth - a Torchwood: Miracle Day prequel

  • Long Time Dead (Torchwood #17)
    #17

    Long Time Dead (Torchwood #17)

    Sarah Pinborough

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2011

    Excavations of the old Torchwood Institute are under way, but the body of Suzie Costello is nowhere to be found - a Torchwood: Miracle Day prequel

  • The Men Who Sold the World (Torchwood #18)
    #18

    The Men Who Sold the World (Torchwood #18)

    Guy Adams

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2011

    When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the strange deaths pile up, Rex realises there must be experimental tech out there, but someone is obstructing him at every turn... more

  • Torchwood: Exodus Code (Torchwood #19)
    #19

    Torchwood: Exodus Code (Torchwood #19)

    John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2012

    It starts with a series of unexplained events. Earth tremors across the globe. People being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. And the world is starting to notice - the number one Twitter trend is #TheLoco. Governments and scientists are bewildered and silent. The world needs Torchwood, but there's not much of Torchwood left. Captain Jack has tracked the problem to its source: a village in Peru, where he's uncovered evidence of alien involvement... more

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