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Darkus is miserable. His dad has disappeared, and now he is living next door to the most disgusting neighbours ever. A giant beetle called Baxter comes to his rescue. But can the two solve the mystery of his dad's disappearance, especially when links emerge to cruel Lucretia Cutter and her penchant for beetle jewellery? A coffee-mug mountain, home to a million insects, could provide the answer - if Darkus and Baxter are brave enough to find it.

At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park on a pedestal of ice. The doctor says his heart is beating, but no one can wake him. Finn’s big sister, Bianca, suspects the beautiful sparkling book Finn got from the library has something to do with it all but the mysterious book has vanished and no one will listen. As more children are frozen, Bianca realises she’s running out of time.

In this third book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to South Africa with his uncle to a ride a famous train...and stumbles onto a murder mystery! Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur...

När Darkus Cuttles pappa försvinner spårlöst från sitt jobb på Naturhistoriska Museet måste Darkus bo hos sin farbror Max. Han och vännerna Bertolt och Virginia vill lösa mysteriet. Kanske kan de ta hjälp av sina nya grannar, skalbaggarna, som visar sig vara allt annat än vanliga insekter... M. G. Leonard är en prisbelönad, engelsk författare av böcker, dikter och teaterföreställningar. Hon har också arbetat en del i musikbranschen. Just nu bor hon i Brighton med sina två söner. Denna bok är den första delen i trilogin om pojken Darkus Cutter och hans intelligenta skalbaggar som förväntas avslutas med en tredje och sista del år 2018.

Detta är den magkittlande, andra delen i berättelsen om Darkus Cutter, hans vänner Bertolt och Virginia och deras skalbaggar. Darkus pappa är lyckligtvis vid liv, men försvinner igen precis efter att ha fått se skalbaggarna. Det verkar som att han gått över till den onda sidan och Lucretia Cutter. Nu måste de ta hjälp av farbror Max och kanske till och med Lucretias dotter, Novak. Med sig har de sina skalbaggar som troget hjälper dem. Hur ska det gå? Och vad är det för ondskefull plan som uppdagas?

Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus' dad has forbidden them to investigate any further. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead....

Darkus and his friends continue their unforgettable adventure in this final instalment of the Beetle trilogy. Arch-villainess Lucretia Cutter has a secret Biome hidden in the Amazon rainforest: can Darkus and his friends, human and beetle alike, find it before it's too late? If they can't stop Lucretia, she will release her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, and the planet will never be the same again....

Eigentlich will Darkus nur herausfinden, wieso sein Vater auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden ist. Doch plötzlich steckt er mitten in einem wahnwitzigen Abenteuer: Er wird von seinen (überaus seltsamen) Nachbarn eingesperrt und von einer Horde Käfer befreit - angeführt von Baxter, dem riesigen Nashornkäfer. Seine neuen krabbelnden Freunde muss er nun unbedingt vor einer exzentrischen Modedesignerin beschützen. Doch wie hängt das alles zusammen?

In this second audiobook of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to the U.S. with his uncle to ride a famous train—the California Comet—and stumbles on a new mystery to solve, in M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman's Kidnap on the California Comet... After...

In The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1, a middle-grade series starter from MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman, a young boy is swept up in an investigation to uncover the perpetrator of a jewel theft. This program includes an author's note read by the authors When eleven-year-old Harrison...

Follow the thrilling animal adventures of young otter Portly – including all your favourite characters such as Mole, Ratty and Toad, from the countryside classic, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. 🦦 "A magical tale of one mischievous otter bursting with charm, wit and wonder" —...

A series of encouraging short podcasts about writing and overcoming hurdles, for first time novelists, from English author M. G. Leonard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.