Death at the Lighthouse Alasdair Beckett King

MONTGOMERY BONBON, DEATH AT THE LIGHTHOUSE BY ALASDAIR BECKETT-KING

Illustrated by Claire Powell

Paperback published by Walker 5th October 2023

ISBN 9781529505818

BONNIE MONTGOMERY IS THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE

Something terribly fishy happens the moment Bonnie arrives on the Odde Island and it’s not just the smell of the harbour. There’s been a mysterious death at the lighthouse, and almost everyone on the island is a suspect.

Time for Bonnieto don a false moustache and assume her alter-ego of super sleuth, Montgomery Bonbon.

MY REVIEW

Death at the Lighthouse is the second book in the series. The book involves Bonnie Montgomery, who isn’t a real detective, she is just an ordinary 10 year old girl, living in a fictional town of Widlington, but she turns into a detective to solve murders. She disguises herself into a man, wearing a beret with a raincoat and a false moustache, speaking in a foreign accent, who is going solve a murder in a lighthouse.

Oddly Island is in shock, after a high winds claimed the life of lighthouse keeper Maude Cragge. The alarm was raised at midnight by exciseman Iain Percival, when he noticed that our beloved clockwork lighthouse lantern had stopped turning.

I highly recommend Montgomery Bonbon series of books to all middle grade readers from 9-12 years of age.

Alastair Beckett-King is a multi award winning comedian and writer. He studied at the London Film school and was nominated for a student Oscar in 2012. Since then he has performed critically lauded solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe written for BBC radio, Co written an award winning video game and created numerous viral sketches for social media, Inman interactive whodunit. https://www.instagram.com/itsmisterbk