A cross between Amelia Earhart, Nancy Drew and Pippi Longstocking, Kitty Hawk is a quirky young heroine with boundless curiosity and a knack for getting herself into all kinds of precarious situations.

Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is the thrilling first installment in a new series of adventure mystery stories that are one part travel, one part history and five parts adventure. This first book of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series introduces Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue.

After leaving her home in the western Canadian fishing village of Tofino to spend the summer in Alaska studying humpback whales Kitty finds herself caught up in an unforgettable adventure involving stolen gold, devious criminals, ghostly shipwrecks, and bone-chilling curses. Kitty’s adventure begins with the lingering mystery of a sunken ship called the Clara Nevada and as the plot continues to unfold this spirited story will have armchair explorers and amateur detectives alike anxiously following every twist and turn as they are swept along through the history of the Klondike Gold Rush to a suspenseful final climatic chase across the rugged terrain of Canada’s Yukon, the harsh land made famous in the stories and poems of such writers as Jack London, Robert Service and Pierre Berton. It is a riveting tale that brings to glorious life the landscape and history of Alaska’s inside passage and Canada’s Yukon, as Kitty is caught up in an epic mystery set against the backdrop of the scenery of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Who is this book aimed at?
Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is a perfect book to fire the imagination of readers of all ages. Filled with fascinating and highly Google-able locations and history this book will inspire anyone to learn and experience more for themselves as Kitty prepares for her next adventure – flying around the world!

Tell us about the series.
Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is the first book in the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency series, of which there are a couple other books already existing and more on the way.  Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway’s Ghost is the second book in the series which takes our heroine down to the Florida Keys.  The next book is Kitty Hawk and the Icelandic Intrigue which (you guessed it) takes Kitty to experience Iceland.  From there Kitty continues her around the world flight to Ireland and England in Kitty Hawk and the Tragedy of the RMS Titanic.

Tell us a bit about yourself.
I always like to try and live life with what I call a “Hemingway Complex”. I even once wrote a travel book using this as a
title. And what exactly is a “Hemingway Complex”, you ask?
Well, some people might describe Ernest Hemingway as being “larger than life”. But to say that is not entirely accurate. He was merely larger than other people’s lives. He was certainly larger than my life, for example, but he fit quite comfortably into his own. My life isn’t extraordinary like that of the great Ernest Hemingway. I’ve never run with the bulls or told people that I fought in wars or hunted German U-Boats in the Caribbean while drinking cocktails on a yacht. But to me living life with a Hemingway Complex means living in pursuit of the impossible. And it’s the only way that I ever seem to do anything interesting.

Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work?
www.iainreading.com

How can we follow you on Twitter and/or Facebook?
https://www.facebook.com/iain.reading
@kittyhawkworld

What’s next?
Up next are further adventures in the Kitty Hawk series.  I hope there will be a total of 13 books in the series overall, but time will tell.  I also have some plans to write a shorter book series in the Fantasy genre as well.