Books with author David Jeffery

“Tonight, tonight The moon shines brightAnd the beast will comeTo tear and bite!” Teen sleuth Beatrice Beecham and her gang of friends have a new case to solve. In the coastal town of Dorsal Finn a timber wolf escapes from a smuggler’s boat at White Wharf. Livestock is found mauled, and the locals are crippled with fear by the hideous sound of snarls and howls in the moonlit nights. Because Dorsal Finn is not like any other town, things are often drawn to it, strange creatures that are not meant to exist. Now Beatrice and The Newshounds have to find out if the creature roaming the fields and moors is actually an escaped wolf, or something far more sinister. And somehow stop it before the beast adds the residents of Dorsal Finn to its menu!This free short story is merely a sample of what to expect in Dave Jeffery’s Beatrice Beecham series, including Beatrice Beecham’s Cryptic Crypt, available from Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.This story (and the Beatrice Beecham series) is perfect for fans of werewolves, shapeshifters, American werewolf in London, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Scooby-Doo, The Monster Squad, The Goonies, Teen Wolf, Secret Seven, Famous Five, and Three Investigators.

Twelve-year-old Beatrice Beecham loves cookery. While her friends are blinded by bling and boys Beatrice scans her ever increasing volumes of Belchette's Encyclopaedia Gastronomica for a recipe to challenge her awesome culinary talents. But Beatrice's world is about to change. Fate will steer her family to the remote coastal town of Dorsal Finn. Yet like the ocean that washes into the bay, darkness lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy town. It is a place of secrets. Secrets that some want found, but most prefer to keep hidden. When Aunt Maud gives her an old cook book as a welcome gift Beatrice finds something surprising within its pages: a cry of help from the past. And a terrible portent for the present.

Space Probes looks at the journeys of robot explorers, and their missions to unlock the secrets of the Universe. Space Probes tells the story of uncrewed space explorations, and what our machines have discovered, such as the heat-blasted surface of Venus, the glittering rings of Saturn, the sub-zero lakes of Titan, and many other wonders of the Cosmos.And recent discoveries by the Philae probe have revealed organic molecules on a comet, raising the question, “Was our own world seeded by life from space?”We are a curious species that needs to explore new frontiers. Today those unknown horizons are far away in deep space - and our robot explorers lead the way.Space probes is another title in the Starcruzer Visual Companion series from award-winning technology writer David Jefferis.

Space Stations takes you on a trip to Earth orbit, and to artificial habitats that have been built in space. The main focus in this book is the International Space Station (ISS) a 100 billion dollar assembly that took dozens of space flights and many years to build. Now it is a flying laboratory with crews of up to six astronauts that stay aboard for six months or more. Earth resources, science experiments, and zero-gravity studies are carried out there, the aim being increase our understanding of how things live and work in the high frontier we call space.

Imagine... an expanse of water vast enough to hide a thousand secrets...A creature lurking in the inky, hidden depths... A beast with the power of legend... A monster that’s long, fierce, and scaly... A leviathan that’s been hunted again and again...Without success. Until, perhaps, now...And for readers, a chance to track down the valuable Silver Ness, a hidden treasure, awaiting discovery...Read the book, find the clues, search for the Silver NessThere are dozens of clues hidden in the words and pictures of TRLNM. When you have read the book, the next step is to solve those clues, puzzles and riddles in a quest to find the valuable treasure, a unique silver-ingot pendant we call the Silver Ness, “the monster with the gemstone eyes.”Secrets of the K-LabOur monster hunters are based at the Knowledge Lab, or “K-Lab”, a hidden base used by Dr Nicholas Know and Hilda Hunter to investigate “The Bizarre and Unbelievable” around the world.About the AuthorDavid Jefferis started his media career creating infographics for the London Observer newspaper. His interest in the arts and sciences thrived with books for respected publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, Kingfisher, and Usborne.He has produced a galaxy of educational books, winning awards for titles and series such as Black Holes, Galaxies and Quasars, Science Discovery, Megatech, Young Scientist, and many more.And Loch Ness? “It’s been a great background against which to satisfy my curiosity and love of travel, mythology and the unknown - all at once!”

Dorsal Finn is a sleepy town, nestled in a small crescent shaped bay, facing the gleaming Atlantic Ocean. In its one hundred and ninety-eight year history the town has come to know mystery and skullduggery like the dearest of friends, so much so it has now become quite normal to have the odd explosion here or missing person there without many of the townsfolk raising as much as an eyebrow. And it is in the town of Dorsal Finn that one Beatrice Beecham now resides, a girl of remarkable talent amongst which is an absolute, innate gift for finding trouble. Within these pages are all kinds of trouble: witches, shaman, and sea monsters, to name but a few. Yet Beatrice is to find out that of all the terrible things lurking in the shows of Dorsal Finn, the biggest threat may come from the town itself.