Simone LaFray and the Bishop of Mumbai

By S P O'Farrell

Simone captures Mumbai

In this third installment of the award-winning series, junior spy Simone LaFray returns to Paris after recovering the legendary OmniKey on her mission in London. Unfortunately, her opportunity for rest is short-lived. Now thirteen, Simone finds her life accelerating (much to her displeasure): The V has a boyfriend, a new baby brother has joined the LaFray family, and relics of the Red Wolf cryptically surface as the specter of an old enemy rises from its grave.

Worst of all, the OmniKey's operation remains a mystery, even to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their only lead is the elusive Bishop of Mumbai, a fifteen-year-old prodigy whose talents for chess and technological wizardry are equally extraordinary. To learn the OmniKey's secrets, Simone must face him in a prestigious chess tournament in his own home country of India-but this time, she won't be working alone.

As queens, pawns, and brazen knights of unknown intent take the board, sides are chosen, and nothing is as it seems. Right and wrong blur as Simone teeters on the edge of a new world. Will she make the right move?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966369263
• ISBN13: 9781966369264
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 9