Meet RORY BRANAGAN - he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not ACTUALLY. But he IS the best detective in town. First in a hilarious seven-book comedy-crime series for readers of 8+.

Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am ACTUALLY a detective.

People always say, `How do you become a detective?'

And I say, `Ahhhh... you don't just FIND YOURSELF suddenly sneaking up on baddies, or diving out of the way as they shoot, or hurtling from an open plane towards the ground! You have to WANT it.'

And what made ME want it? I needed to find out what happened to my dad...

There are seven books in the RORY BRANAGAN (DETECTIVE) series and this is the first, in which you meet Rory and his Accomplice, Cassidy, as they investigate the poisoning of Rory's next-door neighbour. Rory's adventures are all highly illustrated so you can see everything he gets up to in glorious black and white.

This is volume 1 in Rory Branagan .

There are 352 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Ralph Lazar (illustrator) is the creator of the Happiness Is. project, which is viewed by over 10 million people each week and followed by over 3. 4 million people on Facebook @itsthehappypage. Andrew Clover (author) is an actor and comic - nominated for a Perrier at the Edinburgh Fringe. He performs his show The Seven Secrets of Storytelling in schools worldwide from the UK to United Arab Emirates working with Authorsaloud.