Miss Endicott: Part 1 (Volume 1) (Miss Endicott, 1)

After many years abroad, Prudence Endicott is back in England to bury her mother. Hired as a nanny by a wealthy London family, the young woman immediately begins to spend her nights in the more popular neighbourhoods … For Miss Endicott is now the new Conciliator, she who helps the poor and the humble to solve their problems when society ignores them. A difficult task – especially as something sinister appears to be brewing underneath London …

Jean-Christophe Derrien studied scriptwriting for the cinema, which led him to animated cartoons (Bob Morane, Blake & Mortimer …) then almost inevitably to comics, where he garnered acclaim for series Résistance and Poker. Frenchman Xavier Fourquemin went to Belgium to learn the art of bandes dessinées, and has since published several albums and series including Alban and La légende du Changeling.