Name: Running Girl
ISBN: 9780857560582

Simon Mason

Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point, anyway? Life sucks. Nothing ever happens. Until Chloe Dow's body is pulled from a pond. 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? A brand-new teen crime novel from one of today's great storytellers.

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?

EILIS MURRAY

absolutely fantastic, full of red herrings.

Garvie Smith is a sixteen-year-old with a genius level IQ, who can not be bothered with school, smokes cannabis, and hangs out with the bad boys--but when fifteen-year-old Chloe Dow is murdered he comes up against the ambitious Detective Inspector Singh, and both of them are determined to solve the case.

Lynn Braden

Garvie Smith spends most of his time staring into space until one of his classmates is murdered. He dated Chloe Dow briefly and didn't really like her much, but he feels the need to solve her murder. His mother has tried everything to get Garvie to take school seriously, but for Garvie, school is boring; however, the murder case has caught his interest. Detective Inspector Singh has been assigned to the case and he doesn't want Garvie involved, but Garvie is the only one who seems to be coming up with any leads. There are plenty of suspects, but everyone seems to have an alibi, so it's up to Garvie to find out what really happened.

Running Girl is labeled as a young adult mystery, but the only things that are young adult about the book are the characters. All of the themes and ideas involved are very adult; including, drug use, cigarette smoking, gambling, rape, and suicide. The mystery is very complex with many different clues and suspects, but the characters are not really well-developed. DI Singh is young and religiously devout, but that is all we really know about him. Garvie is intelligent and bored, but we don't ever get a sense of why he doesn't seem to care about anything until the murder. Overall, this is a well-plotted mystery, but not very enjoyable to read.

Galaxia

i’m usually not a fan of mystery books at all but this was so interesting!! a bit convoluted at times for my tiny dinosaur brain, but really fun and well-written.

Running Girl

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