Kids: Mysteries and detective stories

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
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Kids: Mysteries and detective stories

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

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Amari and the Night Brothers
Alston, B. B.
Paper Book
Be spellbound by the extraordinary, enchanting Amari and the Night Brothers - the first in a magical series for all ages from breakout author B.B. Alston.   Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing older brother, Quinton, is alive....
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. [1], 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 : the perfect crime - it's a work of art
Cottrell Boyce, Frank
Paper Book
The perfect crime - it's a work of art, in Frank Cottrell Boyce's ingenious story, Framed. Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage - and when he's not trying to persuade his sisters to play...
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
"A must-have series for middle-grade readers." --Booklist A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, 2017 Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl! When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the...
Murder most unladylike
Stevens, Robin
Paper Book
Discover the first gripping, award-winning murder mystery in the million-copy bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. 'Ripping good fun' The Times 'Plotting is what sets...
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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