The Carmody Casebooks

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<p><b>'A cracker . . . Utterly convincing'<i>Philip Pullman</i></b></p><p><b>The Disappearance of Tom Pile</b></p><p>When bright lights are spotted above a tiny village in Dorset, the locals suspect German bombers. Jack Carmody believes otherwise. He is part of a secret government department, set up to explore the supernatural and the unexplained.</p><p>Then a boy Tom Pile is discovered, alone and scared.</p><p><i>Tom went missing forty years ago</i></p><p><b>The Miraculous Return of Annick Garel</b></p><p>One year later two French fishermen see strange lights over the channel and discover the body of a girl, still alive.</p><p><i>Annick Garel drowned in a storm thirty years ago.</i></p><p>Both children have powers that could change the course of the Second World War. Both sides in that war want their secrets</p><p>These are two extraordinary stories.</p><p>These are the Casebooks of Jack Carmody.</p>

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<b>IAN BECK</b>has worked as a freelance illustrator for many years (including such notable artwork as the record cover for Elton John's<i>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road</i>album). Ian turned to writing and illustrating children's books when his own children were born.

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