Bikes and Bullies

About the Book

What in the world is going on?

What do you do when you find a classmate beaten up, his new bike taken from him by the school's most dangerous bully? If you're Neil Everheart, you agree to get the bike back from the bully, which means an after-school showdown in front of half the school. And that's just in the first few pages of Bikes and Bullies.

Soon more new bikes are missing in Greenbelt, where Neil lives, even though Neil's father, the town's Chief of Detectives, says no bikes have been reported stolen. What in the world is going on? It's a mystery that Neil can't resist, even though he should, because soon it becomes bigger and more dangerous than he could have guessed-or might survive.

About the Author

Michael Swartz lives with his wife and sons in Ellicott City, Maryland, where he authors both fiction and non-fiction. With the Neil Everheart mysteries Mr. Swartz has given pre- and early-teens something new and overdue ? a true-to-genre but age-appropriate hard-boiled detective series.