Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

  • Ottoline at Sea

    £7.99

    A charming and irresistible Ottoline story from award-winning and bestselling author Chris Riddell.

  • Circle of Liars

    £8.99

    Seven teens arrive for a school retreat – only to find an abandoned motel and a sinister text message waiting for them: I know what you did a year ago. Each of the seven buried a guilty secret about their tragic school fire. And now someone is out for revenge. Every hour they must choose the guiltiest one among them to cross over the white line that circles the motel and be killed. Otherwise, they all die. But who deserves to live, and who to die? Because only one of them can survive.

  • Almost Nothing Happened

    £7.99

    Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible new YA.

  • Ivy and Bearlock Holmes: The Case of the Missing Flower

    £9.99
    A brand-new mystery fiction series from the pen of Kristyna Litten!
  • The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    £14.99

    From the strange case of ‘The Red-Headed League’ to the extraordinary tale of ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging for the immortal detective’s unique powers of deduction.

  • Cecily Sawyer

    £7.99

    A thrilling, mysterious and very, very funny new adventure from the award-winning author of EINSTEIN THE PENGUIN, with brilliant illustrations from bestseller David Tazzyman.

  • The Lucky House Detective Agency

    £7.99

    Felix and his best friend Isaac love mysteries – chasing clues, identifying suspects, catching criminals – they can’t wait to open their own detective agency. So when Felix’s parents’ Lucky House takeaway is cursed with a spate of bad luck, Felix is determined to find the culprit.

  • Exit Stage Death

    £8.99

    Livi Campbell’s summer to-do list is simple: 1. Have the best final summer at Camp Chance. 2. Prove to her parents that acting is an acceptable career choice. 3. Smash all her rehearsals and get the lead in the senior showcase. But when a fellow camper shows up dead under mysterious circumstances and Livi finds a note suggesting all is not as it seems, she must team up with her camp-mates to catch the culprit before they kill again. Enter Juliet, the social media influencer with everything to prove; Aaron, the nepo baby who isn’t sure he wants to be in Hollywood at all; Daisy, the inexperienced newbie trying to find her place; and Sam, the leading man who broke Livi’s heart last summer. The players are in place. The stage is set. Curtain up.

  • A Box Full of Murders

    £7.99

    When siblings Ava and Luke discover a mysterious notebook in their dad’s attic they are instantly intrigued. And, as they read through letters, diary entries, newspaper cuttings and notarised secret recordings, they realise that a decades-old, still unsolved, murder case is unfolding right in front of them. Determined to discover what really happened, Ava and Luke turn detective to try and crack the case. But soon they realise that the killer might still be out there – and might be closer than they think – YOU know the facts. YOU have all the clues. Can YOU solve the mystery before they do?

  • Sabotage at Sea

    £7.99

    Shenanigans are once again afoot in the town of Widdlington, and this time they’re on board the Dreadnowt – a galleon ship that’s set to host a fireworks display for the town. Bonnie Montgomery and Grampa Banks are on board as guests, but just after sundown, a fog rolls in and a terrible cry is heard over the crash of the waves. Captain Valancourt stumbles out of the mist, dripping wet and covered in red welts, the like of which a sea monster would leave behind, and is soon pronounced dead by the doctor on board. The crowd is shocked, and Bonnie’s fishy-o-meter is off the charts. While Inspector Sands takes over as captain, Bonnie transforms into Montgomery Bonbon, and it’s not long before she’s laid anchor on her prime suspects. Can Montgomery Bonbon solve – the crime of the ancient mariner?

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