Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

  • Freya’s gold

    £7.99

    Legend says the cliffs by the seaside town of Edge are riddled with smugglers’ tunnels, and that gold is stashed in their caves. Freya and her best friend, Lin, love searching for treasure on the beach, but they steer clear of the dark and twisting tunnels. It’d be easy to get lost in there, and Freya’s sure she can hear voices echoing from them when the wind blows. Then a mysterious woman moves into Freya’s granny’s B&B and soon everything that Freya loves about Edge is under threat. It’s time for Freya to face her fears. Can she strike gold before time runs out for her town?

  • The case of the polar poachers

    £7.99

    Einstein the penguin is back in this future-classic and fantastically funny story for all the family to enjoy. Get ready to welcome the most extraordinary penguin back into your own home.

  • The brothers Hawthorne

    £8.99

    Drawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson – with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune and stole their hearts – must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.

  • Goth Girl and the sinister symphony. 4

    £7.99

    A beautiful fresh cover for the Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series. Ada and her friends solve a musical mystery in the fourth book in the series Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony.

  • Goth Girl and the fete worse than death. 2

    £7.99

    A beautiful fresh cover for the second title in Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death. Illustrated in black and white thoughout, full of adventure and dark humour, it is perfect for children aged 8 to 11!

  • Goth Girl and the ghost of a mouse. 1

    £7.99

    A beautiful cover look for the paperback edition of Chris Riddell’s Costa Award-winning first book in the Goth Girl series Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse.

  • This book will self-destruct

    £7.99

    This book will explode in 5 minutes. NO TIME TO LOSE! Agent Harrier must follow the red wire and defuse the bomb before it’s too late. Will our canine spy extraordinaire save everyone from being blasted to smithers? Be careful not to bark up the wrong tree, Harrier – it looks like something very fishy could be *ahem* apaw . . .

  • The Pinchers and the diamond heist

    £8.99

    The first in a funny chapter book crime series about a well-behaved child who doesn’t fit in to his family of criminals-featuring a prison break, a diamond heist and a lie that saves the day.

  • The Houdini Inheritance

    £7.99

    Meet Sailor, Moses, Wader and Shrimp. A gang of four Victorian children condemned to searching through the sludge under Putney Bridge for anything they can sell to make ends meet – the Mudlarkers! Wader has found a letter in a bottle, washed up on the riverbank. The note is mysterious and confusing and it’s followed by another one the very next day. Who is sending them? Why is Wader the only one who can read them? And what is this magic that he’s being warned of, about to befall the river?

  • All tide up

    £9.99

    InvestiGators: All Tide Up is the seventh adventure in the side-splittingly funny comic book series by John Patrick Green – perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey and Dogman.