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Hand-picked Mystery Books for Children

Whodunits, missing pets, secret codes and locked rooms. The kind of book that gets read under the duvet with a torch.

405 mystery books

Dear Scarlett

Fleur Hitchcock

Drifters

Kevin Emerson

Duncan Versus the Googleys

Kate Milner

Echo Mountain

Lauren Wolk

Edie and the Box of Flits

Kate Wilkinson

Evangeline of the Bayou

Jan Eldredge

Express Train to Trouble

Robert Quackenbush

File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

Lemony Snicket

Finch House

Ciera Burch

Five Go Adventuring Again

Enid Blyton

Five Go Off in a Caravan

Enid Blyton

Five Go Off To Camp

Enid Blyton

Five Have A Wonderful Time

Enid Blyton

Five on Kirrin Island Again

Enid Blyton

Five Run Away Together

Enid Blyton

Fledgling

Lucy Hope

Framed

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frankie Sparrow and the Crinklebottom Curse

Ewan McGregor

Friends and Traitors

Helen Peters

Frost Hollow Hall

Emma Carroll

Girl, Missing

Sophie McKenzie

Go Ahead, Secret Seven

Enid Blyton

Goblins vs Dwarves

Philip Reeve

Goofballs 01 – Crazy Case of Missing Thunder

Tony Abbott
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