Friday Barnes #12: Collision Course

Publisher details

Author
R.A. Spratt
Publisher
Puffin Books
Genre
Children’s Fiction
Released
27 February, 2024
ISBN
9780143779254

Friday Barnes #12: Collision Course

Synopsis

Friday Barnes is Europe’s most wanted in this latest installment of the bestselling detective series.

Friday’s Mum, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police think she’s been selling secrets about the CERN Hadron Super Collider.

Friday knows her mother isn't capable of such a thing – this is a woman who can’t even operate a dishwasher. She’s got to smuggle herself into Switzerland to clear her Mum’s name. Fortunately, Melanie is a master of disguise.

After an extremely extreme make-over, Friday arrives at CERN and finds axolotls in the water coolers, graffiti in the great hall and most baffling of all - her sister has fallen in love with an engineer! Can Friday solve these mysteries? Can she keep her family out of prison? And can she recognise Ian if he shaves his head?

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Europe’s Most Wanted: Read an Extract from Friday Barnes #12: Collision Course by R.A. Spratt

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26 February 2024

Europe’s Most Wanted: Read an Extract from Friday Barnes #12: Collision Course by R.A. Spratt

R.A. Spratt
About the author

R.A. Spratt

R.A. Spratt is the author of The Peski Kids, Friday Barnes and The Adventures of Nanny Piggins. In her previous life she was a television writer. Unlike the Peski kids, R.A. Spratt never fights with her brother, but only because he moved to Hong Kong to get away from her. R.A. lives in Bowral, NSW, where she has three chickens, two goldfish and a dog. She also has a husband and two daughters.

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