“Don’t touch – it’s poisonous,” Jess Ponder, the Schools’ Secret Agency ‘Double A-Star’ agent, tells schoolmate and master of the forged sick-note, Leo Sleepwell, when he sees a trail of dried, gold saliva on the seal of an envelope. The letter it contained was sent to Jess by the notorious Nine- carat, aka ‘The Man with the Golden Tongue’.
Tangled Tales are a new innovative junior fiction format which involves two stories in one book. Each side follows a different character in the same story, which aims to encourage children to see that not everything is always what it seems. Whether it's a group of adventuring ants and the kids trying to save them, or the world's luckiest and unluckiest boys, these books are sure to get everyone giggling and thinking. Zog the Zombie Dog Zog the dog loves chasing cats, ginger biscuits and his owner, Daniel. Which is why he can't resist running into the road to tell off Daniel's bully. What he doesn't expect is to wake up as a zombie! Feeling generous, the Grim Reaper has given Zog another chance at life... but can Zog resist passing on the curse until morning? The Grim Reaper's Apprentice Billy is a Gremlimp: incredibly naughty creatures that love to cause chaos. On his tenth birthday, Billy must fulfil his family's tradition and perform his biggest prank, so when an opportunity to become the Grim Reaper's apprentice comes up, it's too good to pass up. But will Billy take his mischief too far?
There's been a burglary at the Bassetville Hotel! Emily and her two dogs, Marmutt and Pugson, are on the case but clues are tricky to find. The only lead they have is a lone tuft of ginger fur... that smells suspiciously like CAT! Is there a real cat burglar about? And, more importantly, can Emily and the dogs catch them?
Moll asks Uncle Boll to puppy-sit her pug, Pete. She makes sure there is lots of food for Boll to eat. But Boll is always hungry, and Pete looks very tasty...
Morag Ramsay is trying to be in optimistic mood, having had murder charges against her dropped due to lack of evidence. But she can remember nothing about the day of the killings . . . or whether she is innocent. With the help of a stranger who turns up on her doorstep, Morag begins to piece together her fragmentary recollection of those recent but traumatic events . . .
Een man keert terug naar zijn geboorteplaats om te onderzoeken of zijn inmiddels overleden vader al dan niet schuldig was aan de moord op drie tienermeisjes meer dan dertig jaar geleden.
On a morning in 1973, Miller McAllister's world fell apart. That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the Scottish island of Fidra and Miller's father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison. Could McAllister have been innocent after all?
Als Innes Haldane op een dag thuiskomt van haar werk, staat er op haar antwoordapparaat een stem uit het verleden. Een verleden dat ze maar al te graag wil vergeten. Bijna dertig jaar geleden zaten Innes en Isabella samen in de Eenheid, een experimentele kliniek voor hoogbegaafde, ontspoorde tieners. Sindsdien hebben ze geen contact meer gehad. Wat wil Isabella nu opeens van haar? Voordat Innes daarachter kan komen, pleegt Isabella zelfmoord. En ze is niet de enige ex-patiënt die de dood vindt. Een lang geleden begraven geheim verbindt hen. Om haar demonen te verjagen, zal Innes de confrontatie met het verleden aan moeten gaan.