Growing up in a city where candy is illegal and sugar is scandalous, 12-year-old detective Nelle Faulker takes the case of a candy gangster's missing teddy bear before her client's own disappearance leads Nelle to a shady underworld of sweets smuggling, back-alley deals and storefront firebombs.

Lavie Tidhar, at various times, has vanished in the jungles of Borneo, climbed a South Pacific volcano in bare feet, visited the singing sand dunes of the Gobi Desert, ridden the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing, and been chased on the beach in Malawi by a very angry hippo (they've made up since). He's lived in Israel, South Africa, Vanuatu, and Laos, but currently makes up words in the part of England where there are lots of squirrels. In his other life, he is a multiple award-winning author of novels for adults

Daniel Duncan is a freelance illustrator inspired by stories, films, old, photos, and sports. Highly commended by Macmillan UK for the Macmillan Prize for Illustration, he was also shortlisted for the AOI Awards for the Children's Books New Talent Category. He creates most of his work in an old stable, now turned studio, in England.