Lauren Child Ruby Redfort 6 Book Set - Look into my eye, Feel the Fear & more

Lauren Child’s Ruby Redfort 6 book set brings together six adventures featuring Ruby Redfort, a thirteen-year-old undercover agent and code-cracker. Across the series, Ruby is presented as a sharp-minded young detective who becomes involved with the most secret of secret agencies, SPECTRUM, and is repeatedly drawn into cases where trust is tested and danger is close at hand.

The collection spans Ruby’s beginnings as an agent through to the concluding instalment. From coded challenges and criminal plots to high-stakes missions in Twinford and beyond, each story places Ruby in situations that demand quick thinking, nerve and ingenuity, with Hitch appearing as her butler and sidekick in the first book’s description.

Included titles

• Pick Your Poison
• Look into My Eyes
• Take Your Last Breath
• Catch Your Death
• Feel the Fear
• Blink and you Die

Key details

• Six-book Ruby Redfort collection
• By Lauren Child
• Series includes the first book and the concluding instalment
• Recommended for children aged 9+

Synopses

Pick Your Poison

The fifth book in the series introduces a tense mystery in Twinford, where rumours prove as dangerous as anything else. With twists and uncertainty at every turn, Ruby must decide who to trust when it seems nobody trusts her.

Look into My Eyes

In the first book, Ruby’s story as an agent begins when an anonymous caller sets her a challenge. It leads her to SPECTRUM, where she is needed to crack a code, and what starts as a desk job escalates into an action-filled case involving the Fool’s Gold Gang.

Take Your Last Breath

The second instalment takes Ruby onto the open ocean. She faces the mystery of the Twinford pirates while trying to evade a sea monster and the Count von Viscount.

Catch Your Death

In the third book, rare and dangerous animals are released and tigers roam the streets of Twinford. The adventure turns wild as Ruby becomes lost in the wilderness and must fight to survive.

Feel the Fear

The fourth book pits Ruby against a foe who seems impossible to spot. She must work out how to catch a light-fingered villain when she cannot even see him.

Blink and you Die

The final book closes the series with Ruby on the run, with multiple threats closing in. With danger coming from unexpected places, she must uncover who is working against her from within her own team.