This final instalment in the award winning Detective Gordon series is a multi-layered philosophical story about good detective work involving all, kindness to newcomers and doing the right thing.
Gecko Press
A Case with a Bang is the fifth and final instalment in the detective Gordon series. EVERY Primary school library should add this series to their collection - they are fabulous. In these books you will meet quirky characters. You will read words of wisdom. And you will savour all the delicious cakes. You are sure to also enjoy solving each mystery alongside a very special mouse called Buffy. Ulf Nilsson died in 2021.
In this final book from the series Buffy sets out to find out about a report of brumbling and scorching. A large garbage can has been bashed and smashed and there have been raids on kitchens in the district with residents reporting stolen pots and pans. Detective Gordon has now retired and Buffy is in charge. Gordon is still keen on police work (and cake) and so he offers to work with a young squirrel called Helmer who is keen to learn about police work.
Read the first chapter here on the Gecko Press page. Julia Marshall from Gecko Press has translated the whole series so that children who read books in English can enjoy meeting Buffy and Gordon and all their forest friends.
Blurb: Night brings a humming, scraping sound in the woods. Someone has wrecked the badger's trash can. Later, three large creatures are spotted up on the mountain. Detective Buffy discovers this seemingly small case really is a dangerous mystery—she comes back from her first investigation flat as a gingerbread, rolled over by something huge and terrifying. Back at the station, retired Detective Gordon is training a new young police assistant, and the cakes have run out in the forest bakery! While all the animals cower at the police station, Buffy remembers Gordon’s stories about trolls. Is it possible they do exist? Taking Gordon’s advice about how everyone thinks differently, she finds a way to communicate with the giant creatures—perhaps not so terrifying after all. The book leaves readers with a memorable Gordon message: Everyone thinks differently, strangers are welcome, cakes for everybody!
I just have one tiny issue. If you have been collecting this series (as my friend has been) then you will want the five books to have the same cover design. Sadly with the newest instalment, the paperback edition has a different cover and here in Australia the hardcover edition which would match her set is almost AUS$38 - way too expensive for a school library to consider. The paperback is under AUS$19. If you are new to this series then the set of paperbacks will all match.
I previously talked about the first book (The First Case) and the third book (A case in any case). In 2017 an animated version of the first book was released (in Swedish with subtitles). Oddly Buffy has been re-named Paddy.
"There is always a good ending. In every story. And in real life.
If one is open to everything."
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