The Football Detective books are about a fourteen-year-old boy called Danny who wants to solve football crimes.

In the first book – Foul Play – he stumbles across the kidnap of his favourite player and it all starts there.

But why write about football crimes?

‘I write the series because I love crime stories and I love football,’ Tom says. ‘I wanted to write something that would be a cross between Match of the Day, The Bill and Alex Rider. Something exciting, realistic and about football.’

Danny takes on a dodgy football chairman and burglars in Foul Play. Then a Russian billionaire in Dead Ball. And in Off Side – which is out in May 2010 – he takes on a corrupt football agent.

‘There are loads of crimes in football. Some chairmen are thieving from clubs. Certain players have some really bad habits and mix with notorious criminals. And a few football agents are terrifying. I love football and hate this side of the game, a side that has nothing to do with the fans.’

Join the fight! Read Football Detective today.

There are two books in the Football Detective series, so far. Foul Play and Dead Ball.

Off Side, the third book, is published in May 2010.

And will be followed quickly by books four and five.