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ISBN 978 1 4472 3896 6 (6)
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https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kevin-brooks/6816 serie
https://www.panmacmillan.com/series/travis-delaney-investigates/PanMac21617 serie

This reminded me a tiny bit of Alex Rider just because the boy is young and both parents have died (but in a car crash). After that though, the similarities disappear. There are no gadgets and the action is much slower. The main character, Travis Delaney, in attempting to accept his parents' death, decides to pursue the last case they were working on, which involves a boxer who just suddenly disappeared and supposedly went to Pakistan to visit his grandmother. This book is supposed to be the first of a series. I might be tempted to buy the second just to see how the series progresses. Didn't love it, but didn't hate it either. ( )

This story has some of the major elements of the detective genre. A mystery that needs solving, information withheld from the main character (and the reader), hidden motives, false identities and quite a few red herrings.
In some ways the story reminds me of the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham. Kevin Brooks has as his main character, a young protagonist, Travis Delaney, who is 13 years old. He has, like Grisham, tried to keep the story believable, placing it in a realistic setting and used real time.
Travis takes on the role of private investigator after his parents, who were themselves private investigators for the firm Delaney & Co, were killed in a car accident. The firm was founded by his grandfather, so Travis feels that he has absorbed enough skills to find out more about their deaths, the case they had been on and some of the strange things that have happened since their deaths.
The action starts at the funeral in the first chapter where he notices a stranger taking an interest in the people present. He is intrigued by the stranger and that he is seemingly filming everything with a hidden camera.
Travis needs to something to help him deal with his parent’s death. He is plagued by questions whirling in his head about the accident and concerned about the presence of the stranger. He decides to look into the case his parents were investigating at the time of their deaths, with the help of Courtney, his parent's assistant. It concerned the disappearance of a promising young boxer, Bashir Kamal. His seemingly simple questions only uncover something that seems much more murky and convoluted.
A lot of the time Travis doesn’t know what is going on and he is also dependent upon the support of his family and his friends and the ending is not a simplistic with everyone brought to justice and all questions answered. Just like real-life things are not so black and white. ( )