Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise You do not mess with Jack Reacher He is as close to untraceable as a person can get A loner comfortable in his anonymity & solitude So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him he knows this has to be serious You do not mess with the Special Investigators In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert & six more are missing Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble & he can't let that go ...

The Case of the Team Spirit introduces readers to Jack Linton Sonny Shauna Charlotte & Mildred six kids navigating the treacherous waters of school & adolescence while also exploring the strange mysteries that abound in their peculiar English town of Tackleford Jack Linton & Sonny look for cures to their football club&s unexplainable woes while Shauna Charlotte & Mildred try to find a way for compassion & justice to triumph in the face of die-hard sports fanaticism But all of them should probably be more concerned with keeping on the good side of their history teacher Mr Bough That is if he has a good side ...

Everyone&s favorite pre-teen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing & rumors of a large beast-like creature roaming the woods Tackleford is in serious danger & then there&s Mildred&s new dog Archibald if you can even call it a dog After all what kind of dog drinks tea out of a cup? Everything comes to a head once the boys get a picture of the beast & Archibald goes missing Is there a connection? & what does it all have to do with the magic pencil Mildred won from a carnie con game? ...

The Tackleford gang is back with a new case that demands solving! When Tackleford&s derelict barns begin going up in flames Linton & Sonny are on the case with a moderately mysterious new friend Paths cross however when Lottie & Mildred meet a terrifying yet misunderstood creature living beneath a bridge! Throw in an overly enthusiastic fire brigade a transforming skate ramp & a new French teacher & you&ve got the kind of charming genius that can only be found in John Allison&s BAD MACHINERY ...

School is out for summer & for the Tackleford mystery team that means lazy days balmy evenings and… creeping existential dread that threatens the whole city With half the team gallivanting off to exotic locales (like Aunty Kath’s in Margate) can Linton Jack & Lottie solve this season’s most dire case? The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor the sixth book in John Allison’s award-winning Bad Machinery series pits our young heroes against the terrors of the unfamiliar & unknown Lottie’s mum & sister have both fallen in love (thanks to the internet) Linton is determined to save his father from the soul-sucking responsibility of a promotion & why is Jack working at the local paper with team nemesis (and hot-shot reporter) Erin Winters? Isn’t print meant to be dead? Could the link between these tangled threads be The Night Creeper who prowls Tackleford’s streets & leaves people in the hospital with a blank stare & a terrible smile on their face? ...

- The Tackleford gang is back with a new case that demands solving! When Tackleford&s derelict barns begin going up in flames Linton & Sonny are on the case with a moderately mysterious new friend Paths cross however when Lottie & Mildred meet a terrifying yet misunderstood creature living beneath a bridge! Throw in an overly enthusiastic Fire Brigade a transforming skate ramp & a new French teacher & you&ve got the kind of charming genius that can only be found in John Allison&s Bad Machinery ...

Shauna Charlotte Mildred Three schoolgirl sleuths Jack Linton Sonny Three schoolboy investigators Tackleford One mid-sized city with a history of countless mysteries Is there enough room at Griswalds Grammar School for two groups of kid detectives? There better be because once these kids have set their sights on solving a mystery there nothing that can derail them Nothing except maybe gossip classwork new football player cards torment from siblings or any number of childhood distractions ...

Everyone's favorite pre-teen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing & rumors of a large beast-like creature roaming the woods Tackleford is in serious danger & then there's Mildred's new dog Archibald if you can even call it a dog After all what kind of dog drinks tea out of a cup? Everything comes to a head once the boys get a picture of the beast & Archibald goes missing Is there a connection? & what does it all have to do with the magic pencil Mildred won from a carnie con game? Don't miss the second installment of John Allison's award-winning webcomic series in print! ...

A new school year brings a new classmate to Griswald&s Grammar School! But he&s a bit strange & he really really likes onions When the whole school suddenly becomes best friends with him Shauna seems to be the only one left out It&s up to her to peel back the mystery one onion layer at a time Join the team for another thrilling case full of the cunning wit & high-flying adventure you can only get from John Allison&s Bad Machinery by John Allison ...

The new year brings the all the joys & near-drownings of young love in The Case of the Fire Inside the latest volume of Bad Machinery! Sonny meets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself while Mildred falls for the bad boy of Saturday detention But can either of them succeed in the face of jealous exes overprotective fathers & the persistent tide of DESTINY? What is a "selkie"? Is a Morton&s toe fatal? & can Dark Rotuss truly save the galaxy? ...