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Kids: Mysteries and detective storiesUnpublished

Are you ready to solve a mystery? Pick out one of these books and enjoy some mysterious happenings, daring detectives, and super sleuths!

Updated July 28, 2025

Wellington City Libraries Children's team at Wellington City Libraries

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Amari and the night brothers

Alston, B. B.

Paper Book

New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor. Amari Peters has...

Five on a treasure island

Blyton, Enid

Paper Book

New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole new generation of readers

The Secret Seven

Blyton, Enid.

Paper Book

It's their very first adventure and the Secret Seven super-sleuths are already on the trail of a mystery! The gang are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house in the snow...

Lizard's tale

Chan, Weng Wai

Paper Book

It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner - but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds...

Detective Beans & the case of the missing hat

Chen, Li

Paper Book

Detective Beans is available 24/7* for all your mystery solving and ice-cream taste testing needs. * Except on school days, and after bedtime. Today he's investigating the case of the missing hat. His missing hat. The clues take Beans all over Cat Town. He...

Look into my eyes

Child, Lauren.

Paper Book

Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome teen detective series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child... Want to know more? Of course you do, bozo. Here's the low-down on Ruby Redfort: she's a genius...

The lost twin

Cleverly, Sophie

Paper Book

The first unputdownable mystery in the thrilling and bestselling SCARLET AND IVY series, perfect for fans of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE, SINCLAIR'S MYSTERIES and THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL. This is the story of how I became my sister... When troublesome Scarlet...

Framed

Cottrell Boyce, Frank

Paper Book

The perfect crime becomes a work of art in Frank Cottrell Boyce's hilarious novel Framed. Featuring a fantastic cover look look and inside illustrations by Steven Lenton.A little boy turns the perfect crime into a work of art.The perfect crime - it's a work of art, in Frank Cottrell Boyce's...

Max in the house of spies

Gidwitz, Adam

Ebook

An acclaimed Best Book of 2024! Instant New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year * Booklist Editors' Choice * Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Common Sense Best Books...

The thieves of Ostia

Lawrence, Caroline

Paper Book

The first in Caroline Lawrence's internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends,...

Mistakes were made

Pastis, Stephan.

Paper Book

Want to aspire to greatness? Check out this edition of Timmy Failure's first adventure--featuring the bonus section "How to Draw Timmy and Total." He may be clueless, but the comically self-confident Timmy Failure is CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the...

The maze of bones

Riordan, Rick.

Paper Book

The first book in the #1 bestselling phenomenon sends readers around the world on the hunt for the 39 Clues!Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."Grace is the last matriarch of the...

Rooftoppers

Rundell, Katherine; Harel, Marie-Alice

Paper Book

CELEBRATING 10 HIGH-FLYING YEARS OF THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MODERN CLASSIC, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EXPLORER _______________ Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie...

Girl detective

Spratt, R. A.

Paper Book

The eagerly awaited new series from the author of the bestselling Nanny Piggins series. When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy. On...

Murder most unladylike

Stevens, Robin

Paper Book

A super-special 10th anniversary edition of the first gripping, award-winning mystery starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. With a new introduction from the author and new bonus content! When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective...

Truly Tan

Storer, Jen

Paper Book

A hilarious series for fans of CLARICE BEAN and RUBY REDFORT. the funniest series for girls since CLARICE BEAN!Meet tan. She's funny. She's lively. She has the mind of a Great Detective ...Dear DiaryIt's official. Our whole family has moved to the country. the pets are disturbed and...

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