Ned and the Chocolate Cheats

In Ned and the Chocolate Cheats Mark Jarvis introduces his young readers to a world were animals can communicate by talking and where there are plenty of adventures to be had.

Meet Ned, an ebullient Jack Russell. His friend who lives next door is a cat called Gizzmo, who knows all about technological stuff.

Ned is told by Gizzmo about a robbery that has occurred at the local shop. Ned gets his human to take him there, for a walk, obviously, to investigate the events for himself.

Jeff, his human, and Ned decide to try to help solve the mystery, but they soon learn more than they bargained for. They become enmeshed with the worlds of organised crime and MI5!

But what, exactly, is going on? Ned and Jeff zip all over the country and even overseas, to try to make sense of events and to thwart the evil plans of their enemies.

What has chocolate got to do with the situation? And exactly how evil are their opponents? Would they be willing to kill Jeff and Ned?

And if so, can they escape them?

And what did the mobility scooter of Mrs Perkins have to do with it all? And what, exactly, are the chocolate cheats up to?

It's an exciting and very funny novel aimed at children 9 to 11 and their adults, as it's an ideal book to share.

It's published by Matador at £7.99.