À treize ans, Darkus est un garçon comme les autres – ou presque : un cerveau hors norme, un chapeau en tweed, des dossiers top secret dans sa chambre… Surtout, il est le fils du détective Alan Kingsley, spécialiste des affaires inexplicables et plongé dans un coma hypnotique depuis quatre ans. À son réveil, Alan aura besoin du remarquable esprit de déduction de Darkus pour éclaircir un incroyable mystère : un livre peut-il pousser ses lecteurs à commettre des crimes ? Un duo détonnant de ...

Darkus découvre que son père s’est envolé, ne lui laissant que le vieux cabot familial — un ex-chien policier — comme équipier d’enquête. Et tous les deux auront bien besoin de leur instinct animal pour résoudre cette affaire : de mystérieux chiens dressés attaquent des policiers à la pleine lune. Une rumeur court sur un loup-garou aperçu en plein cœur d’un lieu touristique de Londres. Et voilà que deux limiers semblent avoir pris Darkus en chasse. Sur la piste d’un ennemi qui ferait passe...

WINNER OF THE SCHOOL READING LIST CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'This fast-paced thriller will thoroughly engage tech savvy teenagers and give them plenty to think about. A [. . .] gripping sci fi adventure. ' LoveReading4KidsAlways online . . . until they want you off. Permanently.Just imagine . . . Hundreds of apps available at the blink of an eye: skills ranging from martial artist to ...

Meet Knightley and Son - two great detectives for the price of one . . .Darkus Knightley is not your average thirteen-year-old: ferociously logical, super-smart and with a fondness for tweed, detective work is in his blood. His dad Alan Knightley was London's top private investigator and an expert in crimes too strangefor Scotland Yard to handle, but four years ago the unexplained finally caught up with him - and he fell into a mysterious coma. Darkus is determined to follow in his...

WINNER OF THE SCHOOL READING LIST CHILDREN'S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'This fast-paced thriller will thoroughly engage tech savvy teenagers and give them plenty to think about. A [. . .] gripping sci fi adventure. ' LoveReading4KidsAlways online . . . until they want you off. Permanently.Just imagine . . . Hundreds of apps available at the blink of an eye: skills ranging from martial artist to ...

Darkus Knightley, tweed-wearing, mega-brained, thoroughly logical 13-year-old investigator of the weird, was just getting used to having his dad back in his life. Then Alan Knightley went off-radar, again, leaving Darkus with a traumatised ex-bomb-disposal dog as his only partner in crime-solving.Now things are getting even stranger. Family pets are being savaged by a beast at a top London beauty spot. Policemen have been tracked and attacked by a particularly aggressive canine. An...

Who will hold the winning hand? Sherlock meets Ocean's Eleven in this wickedly funny, action-packed crime caper.Darkus Knightley is used to expecting the unexpected. An extraordinary solver of crimes, with immense powers of deduction, and regularly found bedecked in tweed, Darkus is anything but the average 13-year-old. But he is the person to call when strange goings-on are afoot!Despite trying to leave his detective ways behind to lead a normal ...