The Suspicious Scarf

The Suspicious Scarf
Author: Lisa Siberry
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743587333

Nancy Drew and The Parent Trap come together in this bright, funny and clever middle-grade mystery series with a stylish twist! For fans of Friday Barnes and Ruby Redfort. Hannah Plum and Patti Woo are staying in a creepy, rundown chalet in the Shadow Mountains National Park, where Patti's aunt Unjoo works as a ranger. The girls' parents are keen to spot an ice owl there, but soon, they're all out looking for Unjoo's stolen dog instead. The only clue is a bit of silver wool on a kennel, and Plum & Woo sense the markings of a crime.​​ With rumours of a terrifying silver wolf snapping at their heels, the girls investigate – at their peril. Who's trying to push them off a ski slope? Is something wicked hiding in the woods? Could a silver scarf be the key to the dog's disappearance? And is Hannah’s new friend – from the local lolly shop – really as sweet as he looks?​​ Hannah and Patti will need to keep their fur-trimmed boots fastened if they’re going to survive this chilling bird-watching holiday. Well, that’s if they can survive the woods (and each other) first ... In every Plum & Woo instalment, Hannah and Patti will investigate a surprising and sinister fashion mystery while also navigating their newly blending family. Brimming with fun, danger and highly relatable tween angst, this series is perfect for readers aged 9+!

The Suspicious Scarf

The Suspicious Scarf
Author: Lisa Siberry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781760507695

Nancy Drew and The Parent Trap come together in this bright, funny and clever middle-grade mystery series with a stylish twist! For fans of Friday Barnes and Ruby Redfort. Hannah Plum and Patti Woo are staying in a creepy, rundown chalet in the Shadow Mountains National Park, where Patti's aunt Unjoo works as a ranger. The girls' parents are keen to spot an ice owl there, but soon, they're all out looking for Unjoo's stolen dog instead. The only clue is a bit of silver wool on a kennel, and Plum & Woo sense the markings of a crime.​​ With rumours of a terrifying silver wolf snapping at their heels, the girls investigate - at their peril. Who's trying to push them off a ski slope? Is something wicked hiding in the woods? Could a silver scarf be the key to the dog's disappearance? And is Hannah's new friend - from the local lolly shop - really as sweet as he looks?​​ Hannah and Patti will need to keep their fur-trimmed boots fastened if they're going to survive this chilling bird-watching holiday. Well, that's if they can survive the woods (and each other) first ... In every Plum & Woo instalment, Hannah and Patti will investigate a surprising and sinister fashion mystery while also navigating their newly blending family. Brimming with fun, danger and highly relatable tween angst, this series is perfect for readers aged 9+!

The Caprices

The Caprices
Author: Sabina Murray
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555848206

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in Malaysia fighting to protect British interests. Two soldiers lost in the jungle with a Japanese prisoner confront their prejudices toward each other, and the nature of being American. An island witnesses the passing of history from Magellan, to Amelia Earhart, to the dropping of the atomic bomb. With exquisite lyricism tempered by a journalist’s eye for detail, Murray shines light on the tangle of battles created by that conflict, the violent reach across the generations, the shattering reverberations in memory. With this collection, Sabina Murray established herself as a passionate and wise voice of literary fiction. “In this sobering book, [Murray] turns the bombed-out and broken setting of World War II into a theater for humankind, where both weakness and grace are writ large.” —The Washington Post

Mystery Of The Angelina Frood

Mystery Of The Angelina Frood
Author: R. Austin Freeman
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755143833

A beautiful young woman is in shock. She calls John Strangeways, a medical lawyer who must piece together the strange disparate facts of her case and in turn, becomes fearful for his life. Only Dr Thorndyke, a master of detection, may be able to solve the baffling mystery of Angelina Frood.

The Puzzling Pearls

The Puzzling Pearls
Author: Lisa Siberry
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-04-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743587228

A dazzling, whip-smart mystery series about two very different girls and a whole heap of danger … Hannah Plum loves fashion, fun, and junk food. Patti Woo is obsessed with detective novels, lives in leggings, and is definitely not Hannah’s friend. But the two girls are stuck at the beachside Heartbreak Hotel together while Hannah’s dad and Patti’s mum are out birdwatching and – yuck! – falling in love. When a hotel guest’s beautiful pink wedding dress is stolen, Hannah is determined to get to the bottom of it. With a reluctant Patti in tow, the two girls are launched into an ever-deepening mystery. Why is a wedding planner sending secret signals to an unknown guest? Who’s leaving creepy wet diving relics in the hotel rooms? And could some long-lost, famous pink pearls be at the heart of it all? If Plum and Woo want to survive the summer, they’ll need to solve this mystery in style. But first, they’ll have to survive each other … In every Plum & Woo instalment, Hannah and Patti will investigate a surprising and sinister fashion mystery while also navigating their newly blending family. Brimming with fun, danger and highly relatable tween angst, this series is perfect for 9+!

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8726586967

A classic detective short story shrouded in mystery, "Marie Rogêt" features Poe’s famour investigator C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve a murder case. Based upon an actual murder, the short story is an intricate narrative revolving around floating dead bodies, strange suicides, phials of poison, and the power of newspapers to solve the gruesome murder. Cumbersome and rather slow-paced, the story is also often labelled as Poe’s least successful among his detective works. On the other hand, it can easily be read as an episode from the CSI TV series, indulging in sneaky situations and hypothetical resolutions. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).