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  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761353406
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.00

Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town

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Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town Li Chen

Detective Beans is back to solve all the mysteries that you need solved, and even the ones you don’t need solved. He’s that good.

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Fliss sat next to Minnie and the little one, letting the soft yet clear notes of song fall into her ears.

Black Wolf

I am running through the desert, the red earth firm and unyielding beneath my trainers.

Coastwatcher

They were still 400 yards from the strip of white beach and the crammed jungle behind it when the fighter planes came.

Violet Black

The world is white and bright and terrifying.

House of Hollow

I was ten years old the first time I realised I was strange.

The Hatmakers

It was a wild and lightning-struck night.

Breathless

I open my eyes and I am tangled in the sheets, books upside down on the floor.

Hello Strange

Josie's start is unexpected. She lies afloat and asleep in a tank of nutrient broth, when one billion volts split the sky.

A Trio of Sophies

Today is the first of September, the first day of spring, and it's been sixty four days since I last saw Sophie Abercrombie.