Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction

Alice and Sonny's family yacht is in Egypt, ready to pick up famous actress Estelle Fortune, and take her to London to film her next blockbuster movie. But just before the boat leaves, Alice discovers that Estelle has vanished! In her room is a note, threatening that unless a large amount of mone...

When Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high-profile armed robbery, he's sentenced to two years in a young offenders' prison. Now he's getting out, and he's determined to turn his life around. But despite his release, systemic discrimination makes it difficult for Ty to truly be free. Inspired ...

Mango and Brash are the InvestiGators: sewer-loving agents of S.U.I.T. and scourge of supervillains everywhere! In their next big adventure, S.U.I.T. headquarters is under attack, and Mango and Brash are going undercover and underground disguised as city sewer workers to unclog a sticky situation...

When Delilah meets Sawyer Saffitz (son of the Anya Saffitz, aka Hollywood royalty), she becomes hooked on a decade-old scandal. In her quest for the truth, Delilah uncovers blogposts written by the mysterious 'gottiewrites' and is soon caught up in a world of greed, fandom conspiracy theories - a...

When the Five see a page ripped from a book, they are soon on the case to find the culprit. But first, there are cakes to be baked and money to be raised for their local library! Will the Five solve the mystery and save the library? The story is broken down into six short chapters with vibrant, f...

Fay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. Now she's back on the street, looking to settle old scores. CHERUB agents Ryan and Ning need Fay's knowledge to unearth a major drug importer. They're trained prof...

Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep. Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows th...

A murder. A mystery. Two murders, actually. Well, three, if you're counting. Oh, look, here comes a fourth! So much murder that skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant must annoy Valkyrie Cain, the infamous Destroyer of Worlds, with his incredible deduction abilities at every available opportunit...

Meet Charley - a totally ordinary 13-year-old, who's also an international singing sensation. Meet George - Charley's best friend, social media whizz, and budding comedian. Charley and George are in Sydney, where Charley is filming her first movie. But when mysterious accidents begin to happen wh...

School outcasts-turned-detective duo, Kerry and Annie, are back - and after solving last summer's menstrual murders, they're now known as The Tampon Two. (Kerry is uncomfortable with this level of attention, Annie is refreshing her follower count every two seconds.) When they attend the Festival ...