The 15th National Cipher Challenge Award Ceremony will be happening on the 15th March at Bletchley Park this year, home of the machine that broke the Enigma code.

This fascinating venue is improved all the more by the people attending the ceremony, and one of the special guests invited is author J.D. Welch, author of the brilliant 'The Einstein Code'. This novel is definitely for the young detective and code breaker inside all of us. Apply online for tickets to the ceremony and get the opportunity to meet J.D. Welch and her fellow code breakers, and of course, have the opportunity to have your book signed.

Ben's mother has been kidnapped and the adults don't believe it. They think she's just missing and her employers and the police don't really want to know. The meeting she attended, after all, never took place. But the message she sent Ben tells a different story.
To find his mum Ben must follow a perilous trail and solve a series of difficult clues, whilst evading being captured by the kidnappers. With help from his alarmingly clever cousins, Jess and Freddie, as well as some hindrance from his uncle, he investigates her mysterious disappearance.
Tormented by conflicting leads and a growing threat, Ben's search becomes increasingly desperate. Can he solve the puzzles and save her, before anything terrible happens to her - or him?