After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon Thief, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. Harrison Beck travels the world on trains with his journalist uncle, and wherever he goes, crime seems to follow. After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey.

In this second book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to the U. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything. There are plenty of notes at the back for train fans, and the book may therefore appeal especially to vehicle-obsessed children who are looking for a longer book with a clear plot to follow.He grew up with a railway line at the bottom of his garden and has been fascinated by trains ever since. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first.

The Adventures on Trains series is published in the UK and US by Macmillan, and is licensed to more than ten countries around the world, including the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latin America, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and Sweden. In this book’s adventure, Harrison is aboard the beautiful, iconic California Comet, with the aim of interviewing a battery billionaire.She works as a freelance digital media producer for clients such as the National Theatre and Harry Potter West End. We first met Hal and his Uncle Nat in last year’s first ‘Adventure on Trains’, The Highland Falcon Thief (you can read my review of that here) and I have been looking forward to this second adventure ever since! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. After his adventure on the Highland Falcon, amateur sleuth Hal Beck is excited to embark on another journey with his journalist uncle. After completing artistic studies she made a career in advertising and has been the founder and owner of a small award winning design and trade business.

This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). There is an odd assembly of characters aboard the California Comet, from a shady passenger with briefcases, a rival journalist, a bullying father and a woman with a bearded dragon! But he soon finds himself drawn into another mystery when the young daughter of a billionaire tech entrepreneur goes missing!When Uncle Nat arrives and asks if Harrison Beck wants to go on another train adventure it sounds like the perfect trip, he'll get to fly to America and then go on an amazing train with his uncle he loves spending time with but after the experience on Highland Falcon he knows a train journey isn't likely to be as simple as getting his ticket and just enjoying the ride. Board the California Comet and help Harrison Beck to solve another heart-stopping mystery in the second Adventures on Trains story, Kidnap on the California Comet. Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller.

You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. This is another well worked and clever story that is for children but can easily be read by adults as there is no dumbing down in the language or style of writing.

Another exciting mystery starring Harrison "Hal" Beck and his Uncle Nat, but this time we have gone stateside! We then took part in the Scout Great Indoors Weekender Camp were Sam read the start of this book as the bedtime story.