If you’re looking for certainties, you’re at the wrong address… here there are only mysteries.

If one day you happen to find yourself in Amsterdam, lazily strolling along the canals, you might notice…

Actually, probably you wouldn’t notice it at all!

Casa Intrigue is, in fact, a house that looks completely ordinary. But the family living there is anything but normal. The only detail that a keen visitor shouldn’t miss is the unusual lemon-yellow mailbox, reserved for the mysterious envelopes sent by Aunt Edna to assign new missions.

Yes, because the Intrigue family deals with something very special… You’re about to meet a real family of spies.

  • A series with the perfect mix of humor, adventure, and intrigue!
  • A bright and sparkling writing style that can capture even the most reluctant reader.
  • A spy adventure full of twists and turns that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.

A SAPPHIRE BLUE ENIGMA

Our family of spies has been summoned to Paris for a secret assignment. They must recover a precious jewel stolen from the famous jeweller Mr. Jezequel III, an old friend who produced numerous pieces for the Intrigues. Unlike other missions, this one will be a true family affair, as Marcus, the youngest, has finally reached the 10-year age limit to participate!

A PITCH BLACK FRAUD

A group of unscrupulous oilmen and corrupt politicians want to conceal the huge environmental risk associated with the Triple Diamond project of oil drilling in the North Sea. The Intrigues’ duty? Protect Professor Griffiths, an academic flying to Amsterdam to reveal the truth behind this disastrous project. Strict surveillance is required to protect the professor from the project’s mastermind: Van Stancken, their number one adversary.

A BLOOD-RED LETTER

An unusual-coloured envelope arrives at the Intrigue home. It comes from Mr. Riddles, a refined man who loves puzzles and invites the Intrigue family to a villa in Provence. A group of spies and the winner of a strange prize trip await them. What are they all doing there? And the mystery immediately thickens.

Publisher: Piemme
Target: 10+
Year: 2018
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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Author
Alessandro Gatti

Alessandro Gatti was born in 1975. As a young man, he studied a lot of philosophy but then he thought it was best to start writing novels for children. He is the author of the Klincus Corteccia books (Mondadori), which have just been adapted into a cartoon series. Along with Pierdomenico Baccalario and Lucia Vaccarino, he is also the author of the novels in the Sherlock, Lupin & Io (Sherlock, Lupin & Me) series, Piemme, translated into several languages. For a few years he has also been a comic book writer for Disney.

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