Children's Books · Hardback

Captured in London

Norwegian title: Forfulgt i London

Ingeborg Dybvig

It's the Easter holiday, and Clara is back staying with her grandparents in England, this time joined by her friend Emilie.

When Grandma breaks her leg, the girls are kindly permitted to travel into London alone. There's shopping to be done on Oxford Street, after all. But then they see a man beaten up, and when they attempt to help him he thrusts a quadrangular contraption upon them. 'Don't go to the police,' he whispers.

Clara has promised everyone that she won't play detective anymore. The girls make their way to the railway station With haste, but it's not their fault that somebody is on their tail...

13-year-old Clara has a tendency to get caught up in mysteries and criminal activities. Enthusiastic readers have followed her adventures throughout four books thus far, and it makes sense that they will also want to join Clara and Emilie in London – on a shopping trip, of course…