Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

  • The great theatre rescue

    £7.99

    Charley doesn’t mind that she’s had an unconventional childhood. Growing up behind the curtain in London’s West End has been full of excitement. She’s even begun taking a turn on stage. But her dreams of being a performer are shattered when she is sent off to boarding school. On arrival, Charley discovers that the school is a place where the girls are forced to do unpaid work in order to fill the pockets of the owners. With the theatre in peril back home, Charley has no choice but to escape, and to make a dangerous journey along the coast in order to get back to all that she loves, and to save her beloved home.

  • Wink, murder

    £7.99

    Mary has a gift for languages and codes that has brought her to the attention of the adults working at Bletchley Park. She finds herself drawn into their undercover operations, learning Japanese in order to decode enemy messages – but the operation she’s a part of remains cloaked in mystery. As tensions on the Home Front escalate, Mary is forced to face the realities of warfare – the enemy is operating amongst them. Posing as a waitress amidst the glamour and bustle of the Ritz Hotel, Mary uncovers secrets and lies amongst the people she’s working mostly closely with. Can Mary steer clear of danger and thwart the devious mission unfolding around her? There is just one thing she knows for sure: trust no one.

  • The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    £7.99

    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.

  • The extraordinary cases of Sherlock Holmes

    £7.99

    Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson embark on eight thrilling investigations.

  • Detective Stanley and the mystery at the museum

    £9.99

    Detective Stanley has barely sat down for his breakfast pancakes when he receives an invitation he cannot refuse. The Art Museum has been raided on the opening day of the Bleat Mondrian show and Stan has been called to investigate. The most perplexing thing about the case: nothing has been stolen! But now Stan finds himself in a tight spot even his powers of deduction could not detect. Can he get himself out of trouble and can he solve the mystery of the Art Museum? Detective Stanley is a colorful and hilarious young graphic reader that is perfect to be enjoyed by emerging and reluctant readers by themselves, or reading along with a parent, carer or teacher.

  • A mind full of murder

    £8.99

    A bone-shaking new trilogy begins – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series

  • Five and the forgotten treasure

    £7.99

    When Fran, Tom, Maddy and Gilbert the dog stay with Professor George Kirrin for the holidays, they soon find themselves caught up in a robbery of a top-secret treasure map. Professor George will have to tell them about an old case of the Famous Five if they’re ever going to catch the thief and rescue the forgotten treasure.

  • Class action

    £9.99

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

  • Murder for two

    £7.99

    Separated when they were 6 months old, twins Ani and Riri couldn’t be more different. Loud and adventurous Ani wants to be a sleuth when she grows up. Shy and quiet Riri prefers books to people, and just wants a safe, germ free job when she grows up. When they’re forced to spend the summer together, Ani is convinced it’s going to be another Great Twin War like the last time they tried family bonding. But this summer is different – there’s a murder, and their dad is arrested as the prime suspect. Can they work together to protect their family and solve the mystery?

  • In want of a suspect

    £14.99

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that London’s first female solicitor in possession of the details of a deadly crime, must be in want of a suspect. The tenacious Lizzie Bennet has earned her place at Longbourn, her father’s law firm. Her work keeps her busy, but luckily it gives her plenty of reasons to consult (and steal occasional kisses) with Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a stern but secretly softhearted solicitor at Pemberley. Lizzie is hired to investigate a deadly warehouse fire and to find the mysterious woman who was spotted at the scene moments before the flames took hold. But when the case leads to the sitting room of a woman Darcy once proposed marriage to, the delicate balance between personal and professional in their relationship is threatened. Questions of the future are cast aside when the prime suspect is murdered and Lizzie’s own life is threatened.

Nomad Books