Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

A mysterious letter from an old friend asks Hal and Uncle Nat to help investigate a spooky supernatural mystery. Legend has it the Kratzensteins, a family of rich and powerful railway tycoons, are cursed, but there is no such thing as a curse, is there? Hal and Nat take the night train to Berlin ...

Things are about to get SUPER WEIRD. When Melvin moves from the city to Donut (a perfectly round island with a hole in the middle), he thinks it's the most rubbish place ever. Then he meets Rhubarb. Rhubarb is OBSESSED with mysteries and has her own school newspaper to investigate the strange goi...

Baker by day, spy by night - Alice Eclair 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-...

Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens. Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers ...

Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens. Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers ...

It's summer term and time for a school trip with a difference! Year 8 are on a boat off the coast of France, learning about ocean life. But things are about to get weird. Who is the creepy man on board the ship? And what is the vast, shadowy creature seen lurking at the bottom of the ocean? When ...

Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ro...

When Bonnie Montgomery finally gets a break from cracking cases as her alter-ego, Montgomery Bonbon, something terribly fishy happens the moment she and Grampa Banks arrive on Odde Island for half-term - and it's not just the smell of the harbour. There's been a mysterious death at Leerie Lightho...

Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting. But danger has a nasty habit of catching up with the Detective Society, and it soon becomes clear that there is trouble afoot at the Rue. Jealousy, t...

Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am actually a detective. My dad disappeared seven years ago and I am SO CLOSE to finding him. But then my best friend Cat and I get stuck in the DEADLIEST of DEADLY DANGERS. There are bad guys, a secret room and lethal creatures with sharp, venomous teeth! To find Dad...