Tim can’t wait to go on holiday – especially as he gets to bring his friend Biscuits along. But their trip unexpectedly becomes truly, terribly adventurous when an encounter with two local bully-boys threatens to disrupt the fun. Narrated by Tim and interspersed with revealing, illustrated extracts from Tim and Biscuits’s holiday diaries, this is a wondefully enjoyable story from one of the most popular writers around that both girls and boys will love.

When police detective Carson Ryder wins a free vacation to the isolated Appalachian mountains, he welcomes the chance to take a well-deserved rest. But all too soon an anonymous phone-call summons him to the scene of grisly torture.