Mystery and detective stories (Tamariki).

Here is a list of books for mystery fans and the budding detective. This selection of mystery and detective stories is bound to amused and inspire your inner Sherlock or Enola Holmes, Famous Five, and Nancy Drew.

Updated August 20, 2024
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Five on a treasure island
Blyton, Enid
Paper Book
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks! 'There was something else out on the sea by the rocks - something dark that seemed to lurch out of the...
Five on Finniston Farm
Blyton, Enid.
Paper Book
Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy. Together they are THE FAMOUS FIVE - Enid Blyton's most popular adventure series. All 21 titles also available as audiobooks! In book eighteen, the Famous Five hunt for the lost dungeons of a ruined castle on Finniston Farm. The...
Framed : the perfect crime - it's a work of art
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...
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
Grabenstein, Chris.
Paper Book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this the action-packed New York Times bestseller from Chris Grabenstein, coauthor of I Funny and other bestselling series with James Patterson! Kyle Keeley is a...
Theodore Boone : the accomplice
Grisham, John
Paper Book
Theodore Boone : the activist
Grisham, John
Paper Book
'Best book ever!' - 5-star reader review Theodore Boone, young lawyer, has had a lot to deal with in his thirteen years, everything from kidnapping to murder. But he's come through it all and, with the law on his side, justice has always prevailed. ...
Theodore Boone : the fugitive
Grisham, John
Paper Book
He was supposed to be having fun with his friends, not playing detective and stalking a serial killer. Theodore Boone - teenage lawyer and courtroom hero - is on a class trip seeing the sights of the capital city. But he hadn't counted on seeing the most wanted man in the...
Theodore Boone : the scandal
Grisham, John
Paper Book
'I'm the lawyer, and you're the client. My advice to you is to bury this and not tell a soul. Never. Got it?' Theodore Boone, courtroom hero and the only kid lawyer in town, is facing a tough week at school with his exams. But things take a turn for the...
Theodore Boone : the abduction
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes are higher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone - who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripples through his small...
The big six
Ransome, Arthur
Paper Book
'Why shouldn't we be detectives too?' When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the river, they find their friends the Death and Glories in a very bad situation. Accused of setting boats adrift, sabotage and theft, the boys are under...
"When did you see her last?"
Snicket, Lemony
Paper Book
Before he wrote 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions. Four to be exact. This is the account of the second question. In the fading town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are...
"Who could that be at this hour?"
Snicket, Lemony
Paper Book
The first volume in the highly anticipated new series by Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He began asking questions that...
The case of the left-handed lady
Springer, Nancy
Paper Book
Enola Holmes : the case of the missing marquess
Springer, Nancy.
Paper Book
When you reach me
Stead, Rebecca.
Audiobook
"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" --The Washington Post   This...
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 bonus short story! The first marvellous murder mystery in the bestselling Murder Most...

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