Bad machinery

A new year brings Sonny and Mildred into the realm of awkward love, as Sonny meets a girl who seems to be a magical Selkie, and Mildred falls for the bad boy she meets in Saturday detention, drawing the ire of Sasha, the boy's girlfriend.

Time is a fickle creature, especially when there's a wormhole in the science cupboard. When a strange boy who seems far too entranced by cell phones appears, it's up to Lottie, Shauna, and Mildred to figure out his strange purposes.

School is out for summer, and for the Tackleford mystery team, that means lazy days, balmy evenings, and creeping existential dread that threatens the whole city. With half of the team gallivanting off to exotic locales (like Aunty Kath's in Margate), can Linton, Jack, and Lottie solve this season's most dire case?.

As summer term draws to a close, a series of mysterious fires strike farm buildings across Tackleford, but the town's young investigators are in disarray. Lottie and Mildred are busy drawing terrible husbands for each other, Linton and Sonny have lost their lust for life... and could all this have anything to do with Jack and Shauna staring into each other's eyes all the time?.

Sonny meets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself, while Mildred falls for the bad boy of Saturday detention. But can either of them succeed in the face of jealous exes, overprotective fathers, and the persistent tide of Destiny?.