I’ve been in denial about this moment for a long time. M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman have been clear for a while now that their excellent Adventures on Trains series had an endgame in mind and…this is it. With The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022) we reach the (ahem) end of the line.
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A final outing for James Ponti’s very entertaining trilogy in which two junior sleuths help the FBI solve baffling cases, it is perhaps unsurprising that Trapped! (2018) follows the age-old tradition of having this case cut Very Close To Home.
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Lion Down (2019) is the fifth book in Stuart Gibbs’ FunJungle series and, with previous entry Panda-Monium (2017) being one of the best juvenile mysteries I’ve yet read in this Minor Felonies undertaking, expectations were high.
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The Seaside Corpse (2022), Martha Jocelyn’s fourth novel to feature the Agatha Christie-inspired 13 year-old sleuth Aggie Morton, recently won the Edgar for Best Juvenile Mystery, so let’s jump back into the series where I’ve reached to date: book 3, The Dead Man in the Garden (2021).
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Mary Virginia Carey would, in time, write more books in the Three Investigators series than any of the four other writers so employed, but got off to a slightly wobbly start with The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints (1971). So will her second title, The Mystery of the Singing Serpent (1972), find her on better form?
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Well, it took seven-and-a-half years and over one thousand posts, but it’s finally happened: I have read a book about which I can find nothing to say.
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I think I’ve been dimly aware of Nancy Springer’s series centred on Enola Holmes, much younger sister of the more famous Sherlock and Mycroft, for a number of years, but it was only the recent(ish) filming of the first book which brought the series more firmly into my orbit.
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Another exclusive boarding school, another murderer on the loose — if mysteries for younger readers are anything to go by, put your kids in the local comp to keep them safe.
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The Invisible Event 