Meet Garvie Smith. Highest IQ ever recorded at Marsh Academy. Lowest ever grades. What's the point, anyway? Life sucks. Nothing ever happens.

Until Chloe Dow's body is pulled from a pond.

DI Singh is already on the case. Ambitious, uptight, methodical - he's determined to solve the mystery and get promoted. He doesn't need any 'assistance' from notorious slacker, Smith.

Or does he?

A brand-new teen crime novel from one of today's great storytellers.

Simon Mason is an author of children's and adult books. His first adult novel, a black comedy entitledThe Great English Nude, won the Betty Trask first novel award andMoon Piewas shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize.Running Girlis his first story starring Garvie Smith.

Simon lives in Oxford with his wife and their two children.

The first book in a fantastic new crime series for young adults (and adults) starring the elusive, laid-back, devastatingly attractive, Garvie Smith.