Name: 500 Minutes of Mystery
Author: Jack Heath 🖊️

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Choppy Water

out now · age 18+

A woman's body is found in a laundry cart aboard the Silver Lady cruise ship.

Management says it was a freak accident. The death is quickly covered up, so as not to ruin the voyage for the passengers.

Cesar Cain doesn't want to get involved. He boarded the Silver Lady to disappear.

But it's March 2020, and the borders are slamming shut. Cesar soon discovers that the woman wasn't the first victim—and with the ship suddenly quarantined and unable to dock anywhere, she won't be the last...

"Brilliant" JOHN PURCELL
"Unhinged" TANYA NIBLETT
"Just wow!" VALERIYA LLOYD
"So much fun" MANDY WHITE
"Sublimely relentless" KATE SOLLY
"Amazing plot twists" HELEN FARCH
"Outstanding" GABRIEL BERGMOSER
"Heart-stopping action" ROD McLARY
"Terrifically entertaining" JEFF POPPLE
"Absolute chaos" @THRILLSKILLSANDCHILLS
"Outrageous action" @PAGES_OF_PROSE_BY_HU
"The blockbuster of the summer" SIMON McDONALD
"The pages practically turn themselves" ROBERT GOODMAN
"I have decided never to go on a cruise" JENNIFER CAMERON-SMITH

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About me

Hi, I'm Jack! I'm a novelist from Canberra, Australia. My work includes 300 Minutes of Danger (for kids), Kill Your Husbands (not for kids), and forty-eight other books, which have sold over a million copies in ten languages. I live with my wife, four chickens, three possums, two cats, some fish, and a pair of human children. 🏡

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500 Minutes of Mystery

february 2027 · age 10+

(Combines 200 Minutes of Mystery and 300 Minutes of Mystery in a single epic volume)

20 stories. 20 mysterious situations. 20 brave kids.

Kane’s parachute fails during a skydive. Was this sabotage?
Mercer stole a secret message. Now two spies are hunting him.
Charlene’s escape room gets hijacked. Can she find the traitor?

Jack Heath’s twenty nail-biting and mysterious short stories will intrigue and terrify during each 20 and 30-minute countdown in this bind-up of two books, as dangerous situations play out right down to the last crucial moment.

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