Vi Spy: License to Chill

Most children know their parents keep little secrets from them, but what if you found out that your mum was keeping huge, life-changing, amazing secrets from you? Everything changes for Valentine (Vi) Day the minute she hears that her mum and her nan were both top secret agents and that her dead hero dad wasn’t a hero or, well ... even dead. Suddenly everything begins to make a lot more sense. Determined to join the family business of top secret spying, Vi must use all her innate spy skills to save her family and the world from evil.

In this first book in a new series from the award-winning author of the Who Let the Gods Out? series, Maz Evans hits the sweet spot where achingly funny meets laugh-out-loud silly. In the midst of a full-throated mystery adventure, Vi and her stepbrother navigate the difficulties of family relationships, disappointments, bullying and so much more, without the story losing any impact, pace or humour. The highlight of the book is the cast of wonderful characters whom you instantly fall in love with, even if, for some of them, it is more that you love-to-hate them. It is impossible not to love the mesmerising and flatulent Siren, as she winds her way into our hearts on a cloud of pheromones and noxious bean gas. Evans really knows how to get the most from her characters, creating laugh-out-loud moments and plot twists that keep the reader on their toes. This is a book to cheer even the worst of the lockdown blues.