The Arctic Railway Assassin (Adventures on Trains, 6)

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She spent her early career in the music industry running Setanta Records, an independent record label, and managing bands, most notably The Divine Comedy. Ignoring the fact that it should have been introduces way earlier in the series, we find out Uncle Nat has a partner? I will be there, along with the other fabulous authors on the shortlist, talking about birds, beetles and my love of nature.

The addition of these details really adds to the story as it is through Hal's considerable skill that the crimes are solved. Hal and Uncle Nat travel to Sweden, boarding the overnight train to Narvik, the northernmost station in Europe, to see the Northern Lights just before Christmas. Hal is an artist and he draws what he sees around him and the illustrations by Elisa Paganelli are amazing and really compliment the story.They are travelling to the Aurora Sky Station in the Arctic circle, to see the Northern Lights for Christmas. When they are able to board the train is about to leave when a strange looking woman in a puffy ski jacket and bobble hat with carrier bags in her hands runs for the train.

Details about the fascinating culture of her people, including clothing, food and their reindeer, add great interest to the story.This is one of the books that however many copies there are on the shelf it's never enough as the kids just devour them. Hopefully that was not the last installment in the series and we get to travel to Japan to visit some characters we already met in the series. Hal has been growing in confidence throughout the series and this book sees his character really develop as he starts to understand peoples behaviours and motivations. She explains she had a premonition she would never see him again and so got on the next plane and just caught the train, the lady in the puffy coat! But first he has to take a plane to Sweden as uncle Nat is there to go to a special dinner with a friend, Morti, who is receiving a Nobel prize and she's asked Nat to go to the ceremony with her.