Mysteries & Detective Stories

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. In book thirteen, dogs are disappearing from the village, but the Seven are so...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks!In book sixteen, it's holiday time at Billycock Hill and the Famous Five make new...

A wildly entertaining, page-turning, enjoyably scary story for fans of Goosebumps, Gremlins, and Night at the Museum. When Olive and some of her year 6 friends find themselves locked overnight inside Flatpack - a...

For fans of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart's Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the final book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481490207Author Beth McMullenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Aladdin PaperbacksPublisher Aladdin PaperbacksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593896686Author Random HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc

Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin finds herself deep in the murky world of race-fixing, trickery and horse thieves in her third mystery adventure, from award-winning author Lauren St John. Laura Marlin's two greatest loves in life are detective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838168919Author Peter BoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Meadowcroft PublishingPublisher Meadowcroft PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838168919Author Peter BoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Meadowcroft PublishingPublisher Meadowcroft PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Snake Bite is the fifth in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984852304Author Kari AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 44Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can't understand are other human beings.When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington, lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the...

Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can't understand are other human beings.When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington, lying dead on the lawn, he decides to track down the...

Praise for Ally Carter:Ally Carter is an author that you simply can't miss. - Gripped into BooksGallagher Girls books have real heart, pushing strength and sisterhood over sass, with super wit and humour too... brilliant. ***** Books for...

A suspenseful, modern update of the classic mystery TV series that's perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, and Gossip Girl. "A gripping thriller with a winning protagonist that sets the stage for more."...

A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'.Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and...

After finding an abandoned baby, 13-yr-old Amy sets out to find the mother.On her way home from school, 13-year-old Amy finds a newborn baby abandoned at the village bus stop. It's wrong, just like when Mum walked out on Amy and her sister ten years ago...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks!In book twenty, the Famous Five visit Whispering Island, another mysterious place...

A timeless story for readers aged 5+ celebrating friendship, imagination and adventure, with exquisite illustrations, from a bestselling author.Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and...

Living in the luxurious Arcanum building - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338755510Author Ann M MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 132mm *...

"An old-school (in every sense) yarn... Bishop pulls it off with humour and aplomb." Financial Times A captivating boarding school mystery from Sylvia Bishop, author of Erica's Elephant, The Bookshop Girl ...

When a batch of his experimental sweets goes wrong at the McBudge Confectionery Company, Archie needs a distraction. And when he hears about a book of magical wisdom lost in a tunnel beneath the mountains, Archie is determined to find it. It's DEFINITELY...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Newbery Medal Winner.Book InformationISBN 9780142401200Author Ellen RaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665934749Author Stuart GibbsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385730174Author Marjorie Weinman SharmatFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Random House USA Children's BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton AbbeyThe city of Yorke is in a panic. There's been a murder! Is an ancient ghost-hound called the Barghest on the loose?ROSE RAVENTHORPE, her friend Orpheus and the secret society of butlers search for clues in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916226807Author C T FrankcomFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint CtfrankcomPublisher CtfrankcomWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective is on a new mission - to Japan!'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese (the good kind!)' Pamela ButchartColin...

Winner of the Blue Peter Award 2020. A mind-bending adventure from the author of Brightstorm! A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood's family is still shattered by grief. But everything changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593180877Author Andrew SharmatFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Join the club, find the magic! The first book in a BRILLIANT new series brimming with adventure, friendship and an amazing array of magical creatures! A must-read for fans of Beast Quest, The Boy Who Grew Dragons and The Naughtiest Unicorn."The world is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665939874Author Stuart GibbsFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young...

2-in-1 edition of the first two stories in the BLUE PETER AWARD-winning mystery adventure series about 11-year-old ace detective, Laura Marlin. In KENTUCKY THRILLER, Laura is ecstatic when her uncle agrees to let her keep a horse after they rescue it...

Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks!In book sixteen, it's holiday time at Billycock Hill and the Famous Five make new...

Outstanding new voice in girls' fiction. Fifteen-year-old Robyn (the "sensible") one and her older sister Rachel (anything but!) arrive in Brighton to spend the summer with their estranged Aunt Jackie, who runs a ballgown hire business from...

The third book in the magical Starfell series, starring misfit witch Willow Moss. Perfect for readers of 8+ and beautifully illustrated throughout by Sarah Warburton. Willow Moss and the Lost Day was selected as Waterstones Book of the...

Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to...

Join schoolgirl detectives Molly, Maria, Pippa and Sally for more mystery and glamour in Holly and Kelly Willoughby's final adventure set in a contemporary school for the Performing Arts.Twin sisters Molly and Maria are first class detectives with a...

'Julia Golding's Jane Austen Investigates offers a gripping detective story with an abundance of Easter eggs for Austen fans... This is a delightful riff on the wit and irony of Austen's works; of her wonderful juvenilia, especially.' David Taylor,...