Jari Mäkipää
Jari Mäkipää (b. 1978) is a Finnish author and TV producer. He is studying at Salford University in the UK, and will graduate with an MA in screenwriting in spring 2011. Mäkipää is best known for his Detective Club Hurricane series, with the eighth instalment coming out in fall 2011. In this series four clever youths embark on adventures in Alder Village, solving tantalizing mysteries. Mäkipää spices up his exciting stories with his unique brand of humour, which relies on his lively, quirky characters. Detective Club Hurricane books have also been sold in Poland.
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Mystery in London
Nominated for the Anni Polva Prize
The Hurricane Detective Club, consisting of veteran sleuths Jesse, Jenni, Matias, and Karoliina, are living through an exciting time in their lives. The youths are preparing for the class trip of their dreams: London. The fuss surrounding the class trip is enough to set anyone’s head spinning. Jenni is the most apprehensive about going – a foreign country and language seem like too much for her.
London charms the youths: there are a thousand things to see and experience in a busy metropolis. One evening the sixth graders receive an invitation to Varpu Miller’s luxury mansion. The fancy evening party goes off without a hitch, but then the butler is confronted by a chilling surprise in the treasure room upstairs! There’s been a bold robbery at the mansion, and the guilty party must still be present…
The Hurricane Detective Club sets about solving this tricky case. It takes the foursome on an adventure through museums, malls, and metro tunnels, to the banks of the night-time river Thames, where they are confronted by a jarring memory from the Club’s past.
The eighth book of the Hurricane Detective Club series provides another episode in the young Hurricanes’ eventful lives. There are also plenty of laughs to go with the thrills, courtesy of a comic couple: the teachers Heimo Haulisto and Haapaniemi, he a master of eccentric humour, she a jealous wife.
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Bike Thieves
This wonderful series began in 2004 with the publication of the Hurricane Detective Club Handbook. This fun guide gives useful tips to all budding detectives from setting up your own club to different disguises and secret codes. Jari Mäkipää has since written six detective novels, in which the four founding members of the original Hurricane Detective Club have adventures and amusing mishaps while solving mysterious incidents at their school.
In the seventh book about The hurricane Detective club, a wave of bike thefts sweeps Alder Village. The young detectives try to catch the thief before the big annual biking event. At the same time they have to work as match-makers for their teachers, and Matias has also his own problems in love.
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Guardians of the Star Triangle
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Thunder Gang
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective club and the Stalkers of Glow
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The hurricane Detective Club and The Cellar of Fear
Rights sold: Polish
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Missing Cards
Rights sold: Polish
Written by Jari Mäkipää
The Hurricane Detective Club Handbook
Rights sold: Polish
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