Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

Anushka is furious. As princess of an Indian kingdom, she has watched the British East India Company take land and her family's most divine jewel - an emerald the size of an apple. So when her father, the Maharaja, decides to visit Queen Victoria at Buckinham Palace, Nush goes too - determined to...

The InvestiGators are the best crime-fighting duo in the world. But not even their hi-tech training programs can prepare them for the return of their greatest nemesis, Crackerdile, in a shocking new form! Even worse, he's creating a team of super villains! Faced with the choice between saving the...

Theo is good at most things. He can almost count to a thousand, knows several French words and can operate the washing machine. But he can't lie or steal. 'You must try harder', says his mother sternly. The Pincher family love to steal things. It's what they are born for! When his parents leave t...

Our four detectives have won a contest and the prize is to visit the new deep-sea lab. When they get there they are enlisted by a marine biologist to help count the population of isopods in an are of the sea floor. When they give the scientist their numbers, she tells them that it is not what she...

I'm Rani Ramgoolam - roving reporter. And I think I've found the perfect story for the junior journalism competition run by the local paper. An eccentric millionaire has created a treasure hunt with a reward for the first person who figures out the clues. Luckily, my mischievous Nani is visiting ...

When the ghosts of two young children start to haunt a local school, trainee ghost hunters Eve, Clovis and Tom are invited to help investigate the case. But before long they realise there is more to this haunting than they first realised. Could it be that the ghost children are victims of Jack th...

Welcome to the city of Bedlam. Enter if you dare! Bedlam is one of the most dangerous places on Earth - home to a host of wicked villains. Nothing and nobody are safe from these evil criminals. The city needs its own superhero to defeat the supervillains. But who? Robodog! The newest recruit at t...

Alice and Sonny are excited for their summer trip, sailing on the luxurious yacht the Lady Rose. They're even more excited when they find out the King of England is going to be onboard too! There's also a precious jewel on the boat - a rare opal, kept in a tank protected by a poisonous octopus. U...

When a terrible storm damages the Happy Tails Rescue Centre, Eva and her friends know they need to help. They decide to put on a show to raise money for a new roof - and not just any show. A dog show, of course, with the help of Eva's adorable whippet, Wafer! Everyone at school is keen to pitch i...

The police are no closer to solving the murder of trainer, John Straker. He was killed last Monday night, 22nd October. The famous racehorse Silver Blaze has been missing since the night of the attack. The country's most famous racehorse has mysteriously disappeared and, what's worse, his trainer...