Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

Snowy has sniffed out another mystery, but also discovers a taste for Scottish whisky! After a terrifying chase through the skies, Tintin sets out to investigate the infamous Black Island. But can Tintin and Snowy escape the terrible 'beast'?

It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don't know who you can trust or who might be a secret spy. Maths whizz Jakob Novis has been recruited to the secret codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park. As Jakob works to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, his younger sister Lizzie is ...

Ruby Redfort: undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius - you can count on her when the ice starts to crack. All good things come to an end. Ruby Redfort is running scared, a whole bunch of people want her dead and worst of all one of them is on her team. But just who is this ag...

Devon is always being left behind by her genius twin sister, Drew. At this point, it's a fact of life. But Devon has one last plan before Drew leaves for college a whole year early - The Best Summer Ever. After committing to the bit a little too much, the twins and their chaotic circle of friends...

Let's follow the footprints! Let's hunt for some clues! Left footprint! Right footprint! No time to lose! As everybody knows, red-footed boobies are fabulous bakers. But when Desmond's frangipane tart goes missing amidst a flurry of footprints, the blue-footed booby becomes the chief suspect. But...

March 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies - because grown-ups always underestimate them. Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry's newest recruits. May's big sister Hazel has arranged for t...

March 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up children as spies - because grown-ups always underestimate them. Enter May, Eric and Nuala: courageous, smart, and the Ministry's newest recruits. May's big sister Hazel has arranged for t...

It is the holidays again and Joe Robinson and his cousins are back with Granny in Muddlemoor. The problem is Muddlemoor is a hotspot for crime. When Joe, Tom and Pip discover that a dangerous gang of robbers is hiding in the local area they start an investigation straightaway. But hang on a sec -...

Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A 17 year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a racist attack. He finds the community he's been desper...

The InvestiGators are having a hard time keeping a low profile with their new headquarters being a giant robot towering over the city! How can they be secret agents if everyone recognises them? But with their ears to the ground, Mango and Brash hear mysterious rumblings about boulder buddies - ar...