The phenomenally bestselling Murdle series presents the first Murdle Junior novel, featuring tough-talking Jake in a thrilling detective mystery with puzzles and clues to solve!It's a cloudy day in the Sacred Kidney playground but Jake likes it that way - dark and uncertain. For a junior detective like Jake, standing up to bad guys is a piece of cake. But just as Jake and her sidekick, Sterling, prepare to face off against the biggest bully in school, there's a scream from inside the library.They all heard Miss Saffron cry out, but when they arrive at the scene of the crime she's nowhere to be found! And none of the grown-ups are talking. Who kidnapped Miss Saffron? All the teachers have something to hide and everyone's a suspect.Join Jake, Sterling and Brick the bully as they join forces to uncover secret corridors, ancient school vendettas and lost relics to solve this mystery in Sleuths on the Loose!Follow the story and puzzle solve along the way, in this companion novel to Murdle Junior 2: Ready, Set, Solve!.