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Poppy Fields Mystery #9
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The wife of anchorman Dermot O'Flannery dies during a bungled burglary and the killer is never caught. Six months later Poppy and Graham are faced with a long, hot summer dog-walking for Poppy's next-door neighbour. This strange, parallel universe of Planet Dog seems a million miles away from the dreadful events that tore the news-reporter apart, but after a malicious prank is played on their fellow dog-walkers, Poppy and Graham find themselves crossing paths with Dermot O'Flannery. With lethal consequences...
- GenresMystery
83 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2011
About the author
Tanya Landman
76 books92 followersCarnegie Medal winning Tanya Landman is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults.
Born and brought up in Kent, Tanya had no intention of becoming a writer until the idea for Waking Merlin popped into her head. "It came from nowhere. It was completely out of the blue."
Tanya now lives and works in Bideford and the nearby coastline was the inspiration for her Flotsam & Jetsam series.
Tanya's first books were "adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humour." But then Tanya turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award) - the first in a series of ten "Agatha-Christie-for-kids" featuring child sleuth Poppy Fields and her friend Graham. Her new highly illustrated books for younger children feature Sam Swann, an accident-prone boy sleuth and his faithful canine sidekick Watson.
Although she writes across a broad age range, Tanya is probably best known for her historical novels for young adults. Apache - set in 19th century America - was shortlisted for several UK awards including the Teenage Book Trust and the Carnegie Medal (where it was voted the Shadowing Groups favourite). The US edition won a Borders Original Voices prize and a Spur award from the Western Writers of America. The Goldsmith's Daughter - set in the Aztec empire during the Spanish invasion - was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. Buffalo Soldier won the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Hell and High Water - a swashbuckling thriller set in 18th century Devon - was shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her latest book Beyond the Wall is set in Roman Britain. Passing for White comes out later this year.
Born and brought up in Kent, Tanya had no intention of becoming a writer until the idea for Waking Merlin popped into her head. "It came from nowhere. It was completely out of the blue."
Tanya now lives and works in Bideford and the nearby coastline was the inspiration for her Flotsam & Jetsam series.
Tanya's first books were "adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humour." But then Tanya turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award) - the first in a series of ten "Agatha-Christie-for-kids" featuring child sleuth Poppy Fields and her friend Graham. Her new highly illustrated books for younger children feature Sam Swann, an accident-prone boy sleuth and his faithful canine sidekick Watson.
Although she writes across a broad age range, Tanya is probably best known for her historical novels for young adults. Apache - set in 19th century America - was shortlisted for several UK awards including the Teenage Book Trust and the Carnegie Medal (where it was voted the Shadowing Groups favourite). The US edition won a Borders Original Voices prize and a Spur award from the Western Writers of America. The Goldsmith's Daughter - set in the Aztec empire during the Spanish invasion - was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. Buffalo Soldier won the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Hell and High Water - a swashbuckling thriller set in 18th century Devon - was shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her latest book Beyond the Wall is set in Roman Britain. Passing for White comes out later this year.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
July 30, 2015
When her neighbour breaks her leg, Poppy is roped into walking the poor lady's dog. Poppy doesn't like dogs and calls upon her best friend and trusty sidekick Graham to help her. They soon find themselves part of the dog-walking community at the local park, which is fine until one of their new acquaintances turns up dead!
This is a reasonably entertaining entry into the series, with a fair amount of sleuthing and action. My buddy-reader, Sunshine Seaspray, found the language a bit ripe and the amount of gore a bit much for a kids' book, but I didn't have a problem with either.
What I did take issue to was the ending, which was a total rip-off of . It's probably more of an affectionate homage to it than a total rip-off, actually, but I wasn't keen either way.
Still, there were some nice moments and, overall, I enjoyed it.
This is a reasonably entertaining entry into the series, with a fair amount of sleuthing and action. My buddy-reader, Sunshine Seaspray, found the language a bit ripe and the amount of gore a bit much for a kids' book, but I didn't have a problem with either.
What I did take issue to was the ending, which was a total rip-off of . It's probably more of an affectionate homage to it than a total rip-off, actually, but I wasn't keen either way.
Still, there were some nice moments and, overall, I enjoyed it.
February 27, 2017
Whoa! This one's a bit dark and graphic! I like it!
July 19, 2022
Poppy has been given the job of walking her next-door neighbour's dog after she falls and breaks her leg. It's not exactly fun, but she likes looking at the other dog walkers, and watching their interactions.
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February 6, 2016
Another mystery that I only solved with hindsight. Delightful but rather more gory than expected, however Poppy and Graham survive to sleuth another day!
February 7, 2016
Good book for people who like murder mystery and it for young readers and people who like dogs.
January 17, 2017
Great mystery book, very intriguing to those 'can't be bothered' people to cannot go through a 5 hour novel! It only lasts about 2 hours, and it kept me gripped the whole way through!
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