The Things you find in Rockpools

An unsolved murder. A remote island. A dark secret.

When a teenage girl disappears from a beach town at the height of summer, a huge police search fails to uncover her fate. So Billy Wheatley steps in to solve the case. At eleven years old, he’s a little young to play detective, but no one knows more about the empty sands, windswept cliffs and hidden caves of his island home.

What’s more, he was there that night.

Billy’s style of investigation is unlike anything you’ve read before. He’s soon caught within a complex web of lies and family secrets. And when everything points towards one terrifying conclusion, his childish game becomes a deadly struggle to survive. Because the killer he seeks is not just someone he knows, it’s the only person he’s ever been able to trust.

Billy needs to solve the case to save himself. But how do you catch a killer – when you’re just a kid?

The Things you Find in Rockpools is an atmospheric and gripping thriller with over 100,000 copies sold and thousands of international five-star reviews. It's been translated into several languages and is now being adapted to the screen.

Start reading today, and find out if Billy can unpick the lies... before it’s too late.