Series
Checquy Files
Daniel O'Malley · 4 novels · 2012–2025
The Rook opens Daniel O'Malley's Checquy Files with Myfanwy Thomas waking up with no memory, surrounded by dead bodies and a letter from her former self explaining that she runs a secretive British agency defending the country from supernatural threats. She has to reconstruct her identity and hunt a traitor inside the organization while keeping up appearances at a job she can no longer remember how to do. The premise of paranormal bureaucracy and espionage continues across the rest of the Checquy novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Checquy Files at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s2
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Royal Gambitdarkest · most intense
- Stilettobrightest
- The Rookcalmest