By Simon Mason (author) Part of the A Garvie Smith Mystery series
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It's exam season - but Five Mile is in shock. A teenage boy was shot last night, with no clear motive and no clues. Garvie Smith - reprobate, genius and waster - was just getting down to a spot of revision. But he knows he's the only one who has any idea where to look for the answers. Starting with his best friend's girlfriend. Exams. What exams?
Praise for Running Girl:
Sassily written, it is driven irresistibly forward by a twisty mystery. - Sunday Times
There's never been a school-age sleuth quite like the excellent Garvie Smith - Guardian
A clever crime novel which keeps you guessing until the very last page - The Bookseller
Simon has always been fascinated by crime novels and grew up reading the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie.
To this day, he continues to be mesmerised by their most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe and Hercule Poirot. These are the characters who inspired Simon to write his first crime novel, Running Girl, introducing Garvie Smith, a young man with a brilliant brain and an obvious reluctance to use it responsibly. Maths was a subject Simon struggled with at school – so he made Garvie a maths genius.
He also asked himself: what makes a really good crime novel, what keeps readers hooked until the very end? And he answered: 1) a totally gripping story full of mystery, danger and foul deeds, 2) a charismatic detective, and 3) a vivid sense of place. This is what he always aims for in his own writing.
Simon lives in Oxford, the city of another very famous detective, Inspector Morse, and he is currently writing another Garvie Smith Mystery.
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It's exam season - but Five Mile is in shock. A teenage boy was shot last night, with no clear motive and no clues.Garvie Smith - reprobate, genius and waster - was just getting down to a spot of revision.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Kid Got Shot and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
Kid Got Shot features in the following genres: Crime & Mystery, Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, School Stories, Recommended Children's eBooks, Recommendations, Featured Books for Young Adults
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Kid Got Shot was written by Simon Mason and published by David Fickling Books
Kid Got Shot has 388 pages
Yes it is part of A Garvie Smith Mystery series
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