Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching
- a wise shepherd
- might have been a witch but now Granny Aching is dead & it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream a headless horseman & strangest of all the tiny blue men in kilts the Wee Free Men" who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles the pictsies who like nothing better than thievin' fightin' & drinkin'. Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing & Tiffany & the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies..."