There are a few little edit niggles that takes a little off the rating but overall this is a book I really did enjoy and can confirm that the other books in the series are on the kindle ready. Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller. After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon Thief, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. A sign of a good book for me is one that he will go back and re read again and again and this is on that list.

After his adventure on the Highland Falcon, amateur sleuth Hal Beck is excited to embark on another journey with his journalist uncle. There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. The second instalment in the bestselling Adventures On Trains series, Kidnap on the California Comet follows Hal and Uncle Nat to the United States for another amazing railway journey - and a brand new mystery to solve. Before writing stories for children, he worked as a playwright, journalist, and digital producer, and founded a company making murder mystery treasure hunts for adventurous Londoners.Hal doesn't want to join his uncle on the Highland Falcon as it makes its way to Scotland - but when he meets Lenny, a stowaway train enthusiast and the driver's daughter, the two embark on a thrilling adventure to find missing jewels and identify the culprit.

A lifelong fan of puzzles, games, and detective fiction, he grew up with a railway at the bottom of his garden and has been mad about trains ever since. You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.We then took part in the Scout Great Indoors Weekender Camp were Sam read the start of this book as the bedtime story.

Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first.Ross Montgomery, author of Perijee and Me Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller. With a cast of delightfully dubious characters who are all potential suspects, Kidnap on the California Comet will keep readers guessing and reading on to enjoy the developing friendships and follow the red herrings across the USA, to a satisfying conclusion. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything. If you’re teaching a KS2 topic on North America, Kidnap on the California Comet provides lots of great jumping-off points.