Murder at Snowfall

The Sunday Time and The Times Children's Book of the WeekThe latest in a series of murder mysteries distinguished by their accessibility and realism. This story has neither quaint period detail nor caricature villains but a body hidden in a plastic binbag break-ins chases and a vicious attack with a car. It is much more Junior Line of Duty than Junior Miss Marple. - Nicolette Jones The Times“Whodunnit? Fleur Hitchcock whose crime novels for children have just the right level of intrigue and jeopardy for this age group. Her latest begins with a trunk coated in snow found by two children ― Ruby and her stepbrother Lucas the son of her mother’s Italian partner Paolo. This being a Hitchcock story (appropriately she shares a surname with Alfred) it contains a dead body.” - Alex O’Connell The TimesA gripping thriller for readers who like danger and mystery and chills and spills from the comfort of their sofas... Unputdownable.When Lucas and Ruby find an abandoned trunk covered in snow Lucas says there's bound to be a body inside. Ruby laughs but what if he's right? Nervously she starts to open it and immediately wishes she hadn't. From that moment on they're drawn into a thrilling mystery one that they have to solve before the falling snow smothers all trace of wrongdoing...Check out these other brilliant books from Fleur Hitchcock:Murder In MidwinterMurder At TwilightMouse HeartAnd many more