The Boy With Wings - Independent Bookshop EditionLenny Henry's brilliant first novel for readers of 9 to 12, illustrated throughout by Keenon Ferrell. Includes an exclusive comic book adventure illustrated by Mark Buckingham. Twelve year old Tunde is just your average kid: average friends, average parents, average grades. Sure, he has his quirks, but if he can avoid the school bullies and hang out with his ragtag group of friends, hes happy enough. But his life is about to get turned upside down

A string of events

has been ordered to conduct an Investigation into a series of suicides that have taken place at the Enterprisea huge

it's murder

enthralling

as narrated in The Lord of the Rings

but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside

The voice on the radio

Dare you read

the Amber Jewel of the Desert

His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies

The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh

it's determined that she actually died of acute arsenic poisoning