Rubies and Runaways (Rose Raventhorpe Investigates #2)
Author(s): Janine Beacham
It's bitterly cold in Yorke and Rose Raventhorpe and her butler are stuck showing Rose's ghastly cousin Herbert around the city. During a service at Yorke's Cathedral, a young boy bursts in, declaring that his sister has been kidnapped. Soon Rose finds herself tangled up in a mystery involving fake antiques, a malodorous factory and a secret society of chimney sweeps. Tea iis brewing and so is murder . . .
Product Information
This is an excellent addition to the popular genre of historical mysteries for children. Excellently plotted, with realistic and well-rounded characters. * Parents in Touch *
A former journalist, Janine Beacham has written all her life. She has always loved fairy tales and fantasy, and as a child would make up games for her friends to play at school. Janine once entered a competition where the prize was a real-life butler - which partly inspired the secret society of butlers in the Rose Raventhorpe Investigates series. Janine lives in Western Australia with her family.
General Fields
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- : Hachette Children's Group
- : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- : 0.218
- : 31 January 2017
- : 19.80 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 2.00 cmmm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Janine Beacham
- : Paperback
- : 817
- : en
- : 248
- : YFH