Jack Heath

Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body-disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognises him as the dead man in his freezer. Then another man goes missing....

A 14-year-old boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a terrifying ransom call. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, codename Hangman. Blake is a genius, known for solving impossible cases. He's also a dangerous criminal - the FBI's last resort. But this time Blake might have...

'A twisted and devious ride.' Hayley Scrivenor 'Kept me guessing right till the end.' Rachael Johns 'There are two brain-teasing mysteries at play here: One, an expertly crafted locked room puzzle to solve. Two . . . how is Jack Heath just so damn good?' Benjamin Stevenson Three couples, friends since high school, rent a luxurious house in the mountains...

Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good. But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths...

'Pure twist from start to finish'SARAH BAILEY 'Twisted . . . fiendish . . . startling'GABRIEL BERGMOSER 'Survivor on steroids'GREG WOODLAND Would you kill your brother to save yourself? After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He's being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep farmer with an...

'Pure twist from start to finish'SARAH BAILEY 'Twisted . . . fiendish . . . startling'GABRIEL BERGMOSER 'Survivor on steroids'GREG WOODLAND Would you kill your brother to save yourself? After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He's being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep farmer with an...

"Pure twist from start to finish" - SARAH BAILEY "Twisted... fiendish... startling" - GABRIEL BERGMOSER "Survivor on steroids" - GREG WOODLAND Would you kill your brother to save yourself? After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He's being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep farmer with an...

Fero knelt down. As he put his hands up he turned his head to look at the man pointing the gun. It was Wilt. Fero tried to look shocked. 'Dad? What are you doing here?' Everyone seems to know who Fero is - except Fero. Is he a ruthless boy soldier from Besmar, or an innocent teen recruit from Kamau?...

Compelling, propulsive and darkly funny, this is a perfect follow-up to Jack Heath's bestselling Kill Your Husbands. Detective Sergeant Kiara Lui has just broken up a very loud and very public fistfight between two blokes in the main street of the small town of Warrigal. But just as she's leaving the scene, a man inexplicably plummets from the sky and...

The next in the series of Doctor Who inspired Puffin Classics books. He tidied his hair, smoothed down his vest, and extended a hand. 'Perhaps we can begin anew,' he said. 'Dr V. Frankenstein, at your service.' When an unsettling folk tale leads the Ninth Doctor and Rose to a remote village in Wales, they get more than they bargained...

Fero isn't a spy.But he looks exactly like someone who is: Troy Maschenov - a ruthless enemy agent.But what starts as a case of mistaken identity quickly turns into a complicated and dangerous plan. Fero is recruited to fight for his country. He will have to impersonate Troy, enter enemy territory, hunt down a missing agent and bring her home...

A trip to the mountains takes a dark turn when Dale finds an ancient handwritten book in his family’s creepy holiday rental. The book begins: Do not stop reading. My life depends on it. But when ghosts from the book start stalking him through the forest, Dale starts to wonder... What’s really hiding in the dusty pages? And will anyone...

It’s almost midnight in the middle of summer. A man calls triple 0. He says he’s been bitten by a blue-backed spider. No-one knows of any such creature. The operator asks for clarification, but now the man is screaming. ‘They’re coming out of the walls!’ he shrieks. ‘Help me! Somebody help!’ Axe Falls is a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying...

'A twisted and devious ride.'HAYLEY SCRIVENOR 'Kept me guessing right till the end.'RACHAEL JOHNS 'There are two brain-teasing mysteries at play here: One, an expertly crafted locked room puzzle to solve. Two . . . how is Jack Heath just so damn good?'BENJAMIN STEVENSON How well do you really know your friends? Three couples, mates since high school, rent a...

Sarah lives in Axe Falls—a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions, and unusual events. Sarah is sure that Axe Falls is haunted. But no-one believes her stories about the mysterious lights and noises beneath her houseboat. Searching for proof, she dives into the ocean, only to discover something much more dangerous than a ghost. Sarah begins to wonder... What else...

A Chinese astronaut is found dead in a NASA training environment in Houston, Texas. No one can explain how he got there. Amid fears of a diplomatic catastrophe, the CIA dispatches Timothy 'Hangman' Blake to investigate a convicted kidnapper who works in the facility—someone Blake put away seven years ago. Blake is deeply insane, afflicted by terrible urges he can...

A deadly blaze. A desperate girl. Three days to crack the case. Everyone knows the story. Jamie George was the golden child. Her sister, Morgan, was nothing but trouble. When their house mysteriously burned down, Jamie barely survived. Morgan wasn’t so lucky. Three years later, teen podcaster Zoe Gale receives an urgent message. Jamie needs help. She’s received a threat...

1000 Minutes of Danger by Jack Heath is an exhilarating collection featuring thirty deadly dangers to escape in one epic volume. The countdown is ticking… Liliana is trapped in a burning building with no way out. Zak is stuck in a shipping container that is slowly sinking. Bea accidentally stumbles across a nest of monsters. Read thirty dangerous stories of...

20 stories. 20 dangerous situations. 20 brave kids. 10 minutes to escape. Dodi is in the blast radius of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Gary is stuck up a tree with a giant tsunami wave fast approaching. Tatum is climbing a caldera when an earthquake makes the volcano erupt. Read 20 new dangerous stories in 10 minutes...

200 Minutes of Mystery by Jack Heath presents 10 stories, each encapsulating a mysterious situation and featuring 10 brave kids faced with a daunting challenge. With only 20 minutes to solve their predicaments, these tales promise to grip your attention from start to finish. Experience heart-pounding moments as Kane's parachute fails during a skydive—could someone be out to harm him?...

10 STORIES 10 DANGEROUS SITUATIONS 10 BRAVE KIDS 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE... 200 Minutes of Danger features ten thrilling stories, each packed with nail-biting suspense and action. Dive into scenarios where young heroes must use their wits and courage to survive life-threatening challenges. Quinn gets thrown overboard into an icy ocean. Can he outwit the circling shark? Ashling is watching...

Starting now, I was on my own. Nolan Hawker has been training at The Peak, a secret spy school that dispatches elite operatives to protect the innocent. His first mission is to go undercover at Blu Xpanse, an oceanic lab where a brilliant geneticist is making creepy, super-sized cockroach-like creatures. Her creations have the potential to save the world. But...

10 stories. 10 dangerous situations. 10 brave kids. 30 minutes to escape. George is trapped in a falling aeroplane with no engine and no pilot. Milla is covered with radioactive waste and her hazard suit is running out of air. Otto is in the darkest depths of the ocean, where something hungry is circling... 300 Minutes of Danger by Jack...

500 Minutes of Danger by Jack Heath presents ten thrilling stories featuring ten courageous kids facing dangerous situations. Each story is a race against the clock with only 50 minutes to make their escape. Bobby wakes up in a dark, cold, and confined space. Has he been buried alive, or is something else at play? Ella finds herself trapped in...

Kid President Totally Rules! by Jack Heath tells the story of Jaxxon, who has accidentally been elected as the first-ever Kid President. Jaxxon has big ideas: free ice-cream in every school, making homework illegal, and transforming all national parks into skate parks. However, not everyone is happy with the new changes, and some are willing to go to great lengths...

Brad has fallen into the lion enclosure and the big cats are hungry! Charith takes the wheel of an out-of-control bus after an explosion. Iresha hears strange noises... from beneath the seabed. Daniel crawls into a waste crusher after a building collapse and then it gets switched on. Tak's class goes on an excursion to an army base and now...

Armed mercenaries invade a hospital and start taking hostages. Some school students barricade themselves in a surgical theatre. But the mercenaries are hunting an injured man ... and he’s in there with them. Jarli, creator of the Truth app, is one of the students trapped in the hospital. All the phones are jammed. The building is locked down. No help...

No Survivors (Liars #2) by Jack Heath Kelton was the perfect hiding place. Until now... A plane crash destroys a house in Kelton. The cause of the accident is a mystery, and all the passengers are missing. Jarli has been lying low since the crime boss known as Viper threatened his family. But then his Truth App uncovers a dangerous...

The murky shadows shifted again. Before Josh’s eyes, they solidified into something with arms and legs and a huge bulbous head... Josh lives in Axe Falls—a town of mysterious disappearances, terrifying visions, and unusual events. When his family moves to a spooky, run-down old ruin, and he meets a strange neighbour telling him to GET OUT, Josh thinks his life...

After thwarting a robbery, Nolan Hawker is invited to the world’s most dangerous school. At The Peak, he learns to crack codes, fly planes and deceive enemies so he can someday infiltrate the deadly anarchist group known as Swarm. But someone at The Peak secretly works for Swarm, and they have a plan—the kind no one walks away from. Can...

Jarli is competing in a robot battle when he is approached by sinister government agents. They want him to use his lie-detector app at a conference to prove the defence minister is telling the truth. The minister may not be lying, but someone else is. When one of the delegates is attacked, Jarli becomes the prime suspect. He can’t even...

The Truth App is the latest craze in the town of Kelton. It listens to everyone around you and tells you if they're lying. When the app goes viral, its teenage creator, Jarli, becomes famous overnight. But being a celebrity can be dangerous, especially when you've just exposed everyone's deepest, darkest secrets. Now everyone is out to get Jarli. Kids...

Maya is a supervillain, but, unfortunately, no-one has noticed. She's tried everything: wearing a nametag that says Villain Kid, heisting the hospital, stealing her whole classroom—nothing has worked. When Maya is expelled and sent to St Flowerpot's School for Ladies, she meets a real criminal mastermind. One with a plan so diabolical it makes Maya's adventures look as harmless as...

300 Minutes of Mystery by Jack Heath presents readers with ten thrilling stories filled with intrigue and daring. Each tale features a brave kid faced with mysterious situations, providing thirty minutes of gripping clues for readers to piece together. In one story, Mercer has stolen a secret message, but what happens when the spies discover the truth? Hamzi finds himself...

An exclusive group chat. A deadly challenge. How far would you go to join? Jayden Jones is missing. Everyone thinks he ran away. His best friend, Zoe Gale, knows they’re wrong. Zoe’s search leads her to The 17—a secret group chat, used by anonymous teens to blackmail the powerless. To join, you have to put on a mask and record...

Mysterious World of Cosentino #3: the Lost Treasure + Rope Trick is a thrilling adventure by Jack Heath. Cosentino, the Grand Illusionist, is in danger! He’s trapped in a glass ball hanging over the ocean, where dangerous beasts lurk. He’ll have to undo shackles, a straightjacket, and padlocks to escape! The audience watching him from the pier is terrified, but...

The rabbits are in trouble! Meet me at the land of Lost Hats When Cosentino, the Grand Illusionist, receives a mysterious note, he discovers the evil two-headed King’s terrible secret. The King has locked up all but a few of the rabbits of Magicland in the Royal Zoo. And tonight, he is going to have a marvellous feast. Everyone in...

Bullet Train (30 Minutes to Escape #1) challenges you with a nerve-wracking scenario: Will you survive, or will you die? You are strapped to your seat on the bullet train. As the train accelerates to top speed, things start going seriously wrong and no-one seems to know why. With the clock counting down, every choice you make could be your...

This is not a threat. I have no demands. This is a statement of fact. Leave ... or die. Jarli has lost a day. His missing memories may reveal the identity of Viper—who just announced a plan to DESTROY the town of Kelton. Meanwhile, Doug is trapped in Viper’s hidden prison. He’s been given up for dead by his family...