Funny Suspense

A purr-fectly planned tea party leads me on an ominous quest to unmask a killer in Willowbrook, where crumpets and murder collide. Unexpectedly returning to my eerie hometown, Willowbrook, I find a dark underbelly of bad business and good lies have been concealed. I randomly inherit Blue Manor and its secrets, which turns me and my cat Whiskers into amateur sleuths. James, the cute town detective, welcomes me to town. At the same time, he receives a call that crumbles the plot of one killer and reveals another. Now I’m entangled in a deadly dance where the clues are steeped in the shadows...

Meet Rory Branagan—he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not actually. But he is the best detective in town. Sixth in a hilarious comedy-crime series for listeners ages eight and up.

When Paul Mouse overhears a customer in a restaurant ordering mouse noses on toast, he assumes it must be a joke. Mouse noses on toast is a myth, isn’t it? But when the waiter asks if that would be with or without whiskers, Paul knows it’s no joke. So begins a laugh-out-loud funny ride involving mouse activists and cheese addicts.

For as long as he can remember, it has been Galileo's dream to become a police horse. But when his dream comes true, he soon realises he's not there to solve crimes–he's just a vehicle to carry around the 'real' human detectives. When Galileo witnesses a crime, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He has a lot to learn, but each crime he solves is sure to take him one step closer to becoming a real detective ...

A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it’s fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.

Hubert Horatio is quite possibly the most responsible and clever child you will ever meet. This is the very fishy tale of how an ordinary day became the death-defying rescue of Hubert Horatio. And who did the rescuing? Why, Hubert, of course....