Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage)
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A dash of daring
£7.99A dash of daring
Baker by day, spy by night – Alice Ãclair leads an exciting double life! At France’s Olympics training camp, a brilliant young cyclist needs help. Her father has disappeared – along with the machine he invented that creates unbreakable codes. Alice goes to work undercover in the athletes’ butter-free kitchen, desperate to crack the case. Armed with a light sponge mix and an airy disregard for danger, can Alice serve up a solution before it’s too late?
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A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder
£9.99A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder
The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about!
THE WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS’ CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE 2020
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A good girl’s guide to murder
£9.99A good girl’s guide to murder
The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about!
TIKTOK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR, 2023
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A season for scandal
£8.99A season for scandal
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.
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All the hidden monsters
£8.99All the hidden monsters
Sage is an ordinary girl and a werewolf. When her friend ismurdered, she is determined to help warlock investigator Oren Rinallis,and find the killer. Unless she and Oren kill each otherfirst …
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All tide up
£8.99All tide up
InvestiGators: All Tide Up is the seventh side-splittingly funny full-colour comic book in the InvestiGators series, written and illustrated by John Patrick Green, perfect for fans of Jamie Smart and Dav Pilkey.
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Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S
£8.99Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S
Investigators: Ants in our P.A.N.T.S written and illustrated by John Patrick Green is the fourth side-splitting full-colour graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey.
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Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
£6.99Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time it’s personal. Artemis’s mother is dangerously ill, and the only way to find a cure is for Artemis – with Holly Short by his side – to go back in time to battle his younger, more evil self.
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Benji’s Emerald King
£7.99Benji’s Emerald King
In Willow Wish Woods stands the ancient Emerald King. It is the tallest tree in the forest and there’s something special about it. Something magic. Benji, Shyla, Ajay, Trix, Fujiko and Eric discover its branches are damaged. Who could have hurt the tree, and why? The stream, the Tadpole Run, is full of rubbish, and there’s not a frog in sight. The friends decide to form the Woodland Explorers Club. Their mission is to solve the mystery of the Emerald King, protect the animals of Willow Wish Woods and bring the magic of the forest back to life.
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Bite risk
£7.99Bite risk
This horror-adventure tale is perfect for bloodthirsty fans of Goosebumps, Stranger Things, Fear Street and Skulduggery Pleasant.Â
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Bringing back Kay-Kay
£7.99Bringing back Kay-Kay
When Lena’s beloved older brother goes missing at the end of summer camp, the bottom drops out of Lena’s world. The police dismiss Kay-Kay’s disappearance as that of just another teenage runaway, but Lena knows they are wrong. Tired of not being listened to, powerless to reach her parents through their grief and unable to imagine a future without her brother in it, Lena sets off to find him. As Lena journeys across India to retrace Kay-Kay’s last known steps, she embarks on a parallel journey of discovery. Because it seems there is a side to Kay-Kay she has never known. The more she learns about her brother in the weeks leading up to his disappearance, the more determined Lena is to find him – and to finally be the sister he has so clearly needed. But will she be too late?
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Carnival of the Hunted
£7.99Carnival of the Hunted
The first figure raises his crossbow, tilting his head to pinpoint the exact position of the thing in the bushes. It has stopped running now, and is muttering something. Some kind of prayer, a call for its mother, its father: anyone who might help it.Something sinister is going on in the stinking slums of London. Sideshow acts are going missing – men wearing animal masks and eye goggles are hunting them down and killing them for sport. But who are this fiendish Hunters’ Club? And what is the reason for their cruel game? Sheba the wolfgirl and Pyewacket the witch’s imp know all about life in a sideshow. But now they are the Carnival, private investigators working to help unusual people like them. Teaming up with new recruits half-cat Inji, her extraordinary brother, the armadillo-like Sil and Glyph the psychic, it’s a race against time to track down the mask-wearing villains.
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Circle of Fire
£6.99Circle of Fire
The time for answers has arrived. After the death of a much loved friend, Team Veritas has even more to fight for. At the University of Yale, in the underground vaults of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the team finally get to see the real live Voynich Manuscript. Amongst stories of giants, betrayal and death, the language of the most mysterious manuscript in the world is finally understood. An ancient secret is broken. And now Team Veritas know their final quest: to journey to the real Avalon – the island where truth and legend meet. But they do not travel alone. There are some who seek revenge. And there are others who demand an impossible sacrifice – only then can the words of the Firebird Code be completely understood.
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Clutch
£7.99Clutch
It’s spring, and Aves Wood is alive with migrating birds returning to build their nests. But eggs are going missing. Could someone be stealing from the nests of the wild birds? Horrified, the birdwatching detectives set up a stakeout, patrolling the woods to protect the nesting birds and hunting down the despicable egg thief. But the Twitchers are soon caught in their own trap. Can they work together to prove their innocence and catch the real criminal before any more birds get hurt?
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Danger At Dead Man’s Pass
£7.99Danger At Dead Man’s Pass
The bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series embarks on a thrilling fourth adventure as Harrison Beck investigates an ancient family curse high in the German mountains in Danger at Dead Man’s Pass.
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Deadly deep
£7.99Deadly deep
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spookyCrater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things!
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