Running Girl

Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point? Life sucks. Nothing surprising ever happens. Until Chloe Dow's body is pulled from a pond. His ex-girlfriend. DI Singh is already on the case. Ambitious, uptight, methodical - he's determined to solve the mystery - and get promoted. He doesn't need any 'assistance' from notorious slacker, Smith. Or does he? Review: Sassily written, it is driven irresistibly forward by a twisty mystery * Sunday Times * Five Stars! * Telegraph * Prizes: Short-listed for North East Teen Book Awards 2015 and Costa Children's Book Award 2014 (UK). Author Biography: Simon Mason is an author of children's and adult books. His first adult novel won the Betty Trask first novel award, and his YA novel Moon Pie was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. Simon lives in Oxford with his wife and their two children.