The Mystery of the Strange Bundle
ISBN: 9781405204026
Description
All the Five Find-Outers have had flu this Christmas holiday, so it doesn't seem as if anything exciting could happen. But then a strange robbery, where nothing seems to have been taken, occurs.
Reviewed on 10th July 2015
This time out the Five Find-Outers have all been ill in the holidays and it seems they'll be back to school without a mystery to solve, when one suddenly appears just two houses away.
I'm starting to feel that the series has started to lose its way by this point - with some of the lighter elements moving toward absurdity and distancing themselves from the realism that I enjoyed about the earlier books.
There is also a scene that actually shocked me - I had no memory of this book from when I was younger, so I imagine it wasn't one that I regularly re-read, and I'm not surprised if a scene like that can happen - it's the sort of thing that would definitely have major repercussions if it happened today but was kind of ignored here.
Overall, nothing special as far as the series goes, even a bit disappointing really.
