Little People — Tom Holt

A young man uncovers an elf-related conspiracy at his stepfather's shoe factory in this humorous fantasy by the author of Falling Sideways.

"Chattily entertaining . . . moves along at quite a clip." -- Booklist

"I was eight years old when I saw my first elf." 

And for unlikely hero Michael it was his last. 

Michael's unfortunately (but accurately) named girlfriend, Cruella, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people, but the problem is that they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it is his own stepfather who's responsible for causing them so much misery. Oh yes. Daddy George knows that elves can do so much more than just gardening . . .