The Peculiar Investigations of Felix Mathis. # 1: Astounding Secrets and Deadly Professors.
S.D Shaw
Paperback
(Independently published, Aug. 7, 2018)
Felix Mathis is a regular 14 year old boy with the usual problems. As well as struggling with school bullies, strange crushes and troublesome parental issues he also happens to have brilliant powers of deduction and a burning desire to become the world’s greatest detective. But when his sleep is disturbed by a series of loud crashes seemingly coming from beneath his house and his best friend, Morgan tells him of a fiendish plot to injure their fellow student Ellie Baldwin, Felix cannot even begin to imagine the dramatic and dangerous path his investigations are set to lead him on. As Felix struggles with his own investigations, Dominic Chase (a grizzled American spy) and Scarlett Romonova (a Victorian explorer who’s been frozen in time) two operatives working for the secret government agency SPIT, face a parallel struggle to control their latest house guest, a live Velociraptor, in a secret base deep beneath Felix’s house.As the world's of both Felix and the Agents inevitably collide, they are forced to join forces in order to take down a mad Professor and stop his complex and evil plan, re-designing the genetic make-up of a number of kidnapped children and turning them into modern day versions of histories most notorious bad guys . Along the way Felix is inducted into the Agency, must navigate a trap filled secret wing in the hospital, avoid reincarnated prehistoric beasts, fight zombified paramedics and come face to face with the evil genius, Prof. Callum Doyle.