Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage)

  • Things that go bump

    £7.99

    Funny, highly entertaining spooky middle grade packed with monsters and mayhem – for kids who love a good (safe) scream!

  • I will follow

    £8.99

    It’s every influencers biggest nightmare when a follower decidesto kidnap her TikTok hero in order to become her BFF and a big starherself.Like Stephen King’s Misery … for the TikTok generation.

  • Looking for JJ

    £8.99

    A gripping and emotionally searing novel ‘Looking for JJ’ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child – by her friend. Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back . . .

  • A season for scandal

    £8.99

    An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain.

  • The case of the abandoned boat

    £7.99

    Fayson and her friends are back together and ready for their toughest case yet – someone is sending anonymous emails accusing the detective agency of being a nuisance to the island! But when they discover an abandoned boat with two wet lifejackets on board, they know they have a new mystery to solve. As strange things start happening on the island, with books and video games vanishing and a suspicious figure lurking around at night, Di Island Crew must use all their smarts to uncover the truth. Can they crack the case and save the detective agency, or will they be forced to close down for good?

  • The invocations

    £8.99

    Five women are dead. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three lonely teenage girls – one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge – will team up to track down and take out a brutal supernatural killer. At the apartment of the fifth victim, Jude and Zara meet by chance, and there they find a clue that brings their paths crashing together: A strange business card bearing three words. Emer Byrne. Cursewriter.

  • Murder by mistake

    £7.99

    The Detention Detectives are back! It’s been five months since Jonno, Lydia and Daniel solved the mystery of their teacher’s killer. But murder has returned to Hanbridge, and this time twelve-year-old Lydia leads the case. With the mystery VERY close to home, can our trio win the day once again?

  • Dread wood. Book 5

    £7.99

    The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things.

  • The floating witch mystery

    £7.99

    A charming stranger arrives in sleepy Sleeford Lock. Only intrepid school reporter, Veena Vale, is suspicious of his arrival – but no one will listen to her except for Nightshade, the talking cat. Together they must unravel an ancient curse, tell some uncomfortable lies, and bake an awful lot of flapjacks …

  • The Swifts

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    On the day they are born, each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, and it is assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift has other ideas. So what if her relatives all think she’s destined to turn out as a troublemaker, just because of her name? Shenanigan knows she can be whatever she wants – pirate, explorer or even detective. Which is lucky, really, because when one of the Family tries to murder Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, someone has to work out whodunit. With the help of her sisters and cousin, Shenanigan grudgingly takes on the case, but more murders, a hidden treasure and an awful lot of suspects make things seriously complicated. Can Shenanigan catch the killer before the whole household is picked off?

  • The undying of Obedience Wellrest

    £8.99

    Ned works as a gravekeeper with his grandfather. Ned’s odd life is disrupted when graves are disturbed and an attractive young woman, Obedience Wellrest, starts visiting the cemetery. A mystery of science and magic unravels – and no-one is quite as they seem …