SuperPizzaBoy and I just finished this book. We read it for his nightly story time. It is a lot of fun for a 10 year old boy and his Dad to read. It is about a boy, Fletcher Moon, who obtained his detective certification on the internet after, of course, lying about his age. He is smaller than other boys his age so his nickname is Half Moon.

He hires himself out to other kids to solve crimes. He falls into a real tangled nest that gets him framed and crossways with the real law and quite an adventure results. He runs away from home and hangs out with the town’s outlaw family under disguise while he tries to unravel the various threads of a big conspiracy in town.

Half Moon is very Spocklike in his ability to analyze evidence and make deductions. He also has a password that gets him internet access to the local police records. PizzaBoy loved this guy.

Half Moon even gets friendly, but not quite romantic, with a very pretty 12 year old girl in town (“That’s embarrassing!” SPB tells me, “don’t talk about it”, I’m told. I tell him “there is nothing quite like an older woman”, “Ahhhhhh” he yells, “Mom, Dad is embarrassing me again!” Me and PizzaBoy have a lot of fun during storytime, or at least I do.)

The book is set in Ireland which makes it all that much more exotic.

Of course Half Moon figures it all out and is a hero in the end. He doesn’t quite get the girl (that would probably ruin it for this age group of boy, maybe next time.) SPB and I both loved this book and recommend it heartily to any 10 year old boy.