NOVELS
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The Hot Chocolate Mystery.
When the owner of their favourite café vanishes, budding journalists Lia and Zoe find a desperate message written in cocoa powder on his famous hot chocolate: HELP ME!
Armed with his hidden recipe book, the duo chase clues across town – interviewing locals, tailing a mysterious van to an abandoned warehouse, and teaming up with the town’s star reporter. All signs point to the ambitious owner of a rival café, The Silver Spoon. But can two young sleuths crack the case before it’s too late?
THE THIRTEENTH TOLL
Big Ben shouldn’t strike 13 and Diggory Jones’ brother should not have gone missing from a central London museum in broad daylight.
Determined to find him and prove that he is not the useless nerd everyone thinks he is, Diggory retraces the last moments he spent with his brother by breaking into the museum at midnight.
Just as he discovers an abandoned priest hole, Diggory hears the bells of Big Ben toll 13 times. It is a sound that transports him back in time to 1888. To a time when the museum was a grey and dangerous workhouse.
136 years in the past, Bryony Entwhistle is secretly investigating the case of the missing children. One-by-one, her friends have been disappearing from the workhouse dormitories. Sneaking out to her secret hideout just after midnight, Bryony discovers a strangely dressed boy from the future has broken into her room.
With a shared purpose of finding their loved ones, this unlikely duo team up to uncover the mystery of the missing children. Forced to confront an ever-present evil, find their friends and make Big Ben strike 13 again, Bryony and Diggory forge a loyalty that will transcend the centuries that divide them.
1666
Pudding Lane, London. September, 1666.
14-year-old illusionist Felicity Cutler finds herself trapped in her cellar with a fresh corpse just after her father disappears.
With the Great Fire raging across London, Flick must race to find her father by solving a trail of clues that he has left behind leading her to discover a deadly plot that leads all the way to the king.
“A historical mash-up of ‘Die Hard’ meets ‘Angels and Demons’ with a kick-ass female protagonist worthy of Enola Holmes and a young Harry Houdini. It’s full of murder and mystery and intrigue which is no wonder why the young readers loved it so much.”
WriteMentor Judge, January 2020
A.R.M.A.
Blake Somerville is a field agent in the Agency for the Retrieval of Magical Antiquities (A.R.M.A.) – a top secret organisation run by his parents to track down and secure ancient artefacts with magical powers before they fall into the wrong hands.
When a severed hand turns up at his school playground, Blake returns home with his friend, and fellow agent, Emma for an agency meeting.
However, on discovering that his parents are missing and that a second severed hand has appeared in his fridge, Blake realises that the agency has been compromised and the world is at risk…
Voxmort: The Stone of Death
William Baker is 14 and he can speak to dead people, which is news to him.
When he sneaks into his school library in the early hours of Monday morning, he is surprised to see the dead body of his geography teacher Miss Jenkins sprawled out on the floor. He is even more surprised to see Miss Jenkins standing next to him looking down at the blood spilling from her head.
When Miss Jenkins asks William to find the person that has killed her, she starts a chain of events that will bind William to the discovery of Odin’s Stone of Death: a rock that tethers the dead to the world of the living.
S. M. Dooley 