A new and intriguing Garvie Smith mystery, featuring the same brilliant characters and dry humour of Kid Got Shot (Crime Fest Best Crime Novel for Young Adults) and Costa Prize-shortlisted Running Girl.
A new and intriguing Garvie Smith mystery, featuring the same brilliant characters and dry humour of Kid Got Shot (Crime Fest Best Crime Novel for Young Adults) and Costa Prize-shortlisted Running Girl.
Garvie Smith–teenager, school dropout, crime-solving genius–has a new problem to decipher. A girl called Amy has gone missing, and her parents are going spare. The police have no leads, and no clue. But Garvie thinks he has the answer–and it’s not what any of the grown-ups expect. But that’s not Garvie’s only problem. He’s about to fall head over heels for someone involved in some very murky business indeed...
Sasilly written, it is driven forward by a twisty mystery Sunday Times, praise for the Garvie Smith Mysteries
There's never been a school-age sleuth quite like Garvie Smith Guardian, praise for the Garvie Smith Mysteries
A clever crime novel which keeps you guessing until the very last page The Bookseller, praise for the Garvie Smith Mysteries
Simon Mason is an author of children's and adult books. His first adult novel won the Betty Trask first novel award, and his YA novel Moon Pie was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. Running Girl was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award; Kid Got Shot won CrimeFest's Best YA Crime Novel Award in 2017. Simon lives in Oxford with his wife and their two children.
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