Stop Secret Mysteries: Stinker the Horrific Sock Monster

Ilona Ahti

Original title: Stop Secret. Hikisukka Hirmunen

Author: Ilona Ahti

Illustrator: Miila Westin

Published: 2023

Publisher: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)

Genre: Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Part of a series: Stop Secret Mysteries

Reading material:

English sample

Finnish manuscript

A funny middle-grade mystery series for fans of Roald Dahl

The sock-trap has been set! A sock-monster, Stinker,  is on the loose!

In the opening of this charmingly funny middle-grade series, top-secret cases are being solved. Why are there only odd socks  in the cabinet, and where have the hairclips and remote controls vanished?

The peculiar events begin when a strange creature snatches the last pair of socks from ten-year-old Hilla. She catches a glimpse of a fluffy, golden tail and finds a color-changing hair as evidence. A top-secret mystery must be solved, in which Hilla is helped by her neighbors Maisa and Roni-Toni. Hilla's grandmother Mitsi clearly knows more than she's telling, and in the end there's an explanation for everything that no one would have expected...

apturing something essential about the everyday life of children. This is what makes it such a fascinating book: simply incomprehensible things are mixed in with the ordinary and everyday. And when everything is tied together by the mystery in the story, that’s when you have all the ingredients for a gripping title.

Runeberg Prize Jury

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About author

Ilona Ahti

Ilona Ahti is a Finnish screenwriter and author with an MA in both Screenwriting (Aalto University) and Social Sciences (University of Helsinki). She has been to all continents, except Antarctica, and lived in most of them.  She has co-written the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award winning and Finnish Oscar nominee feature film “Girl Picture”. She is currently developing several screenplays in both tv and film. She has also published the Stop Secret novel series and other works of fiction.

Bibliography


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2023, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

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Stop Secret Mysteries: Stinker the Horrific Sock Monster