If you enjoy exciting books that keep you guessing all the way through you might like to choose from some of these great mysteries and thrillers available from the library.
In The thieves of Ostia (braille, giant print, TB 17011) by Caroline Lawrence we go right back in time to the year 79 AD. Someone is going around the ancient Roman port of Ostia with one thing in mind - to rid the town of its dog population! It seems that no dog is safe and Flavia and her friends decide that they need to investigate in order to track down the person responsible before any more harm is done. The thieves of Ostia is the first book in the Roman mystery series and is not only a thrilling page turner with a cliff hanger at the end of each chapter but the attention to detail brings to life what it was really like to live in ancient Rome.
With the past still in mind we move on to Z. Rex (braille, giant print, TB 17792) by Steve Cole. Z. Rex is a living, breathing, man-eating dinosaur who has been brought to life by Adam's dad. Z. Rex can talk, think and kill and has absolutely no idea why he's here! It's only Adam's dad who knows the reason but now he's nowhere to be found. Boy and dinosaur set out on a mission to find him but there are people who will stop at nothing to stop this from happening.
Next we move to modern day London for Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye mystery (braille, giant print, TB 18183). Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye but after half an hour all the passengers who boarded with him have trooped off but Salim is nowhere to be seen. How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? It's left to Ted and Kat to play detective since the police are having no luck.
Finally we end with Sophie McKenzie's best-selling thriller Girl missing (braille, giant print). Lauren has always known she was adopted but she discovers that there is a real possibility she was snatched from an American family as a baby. Suddenly her life seems like a sham. How can she find her real parents? And are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her?
Please contact the Children's Librarian on 0161 355 2061 or at childrenslibrarian@rnib.org.uk for further details.