Rubies and Runaways (Rose Raventhorpe Investigates #2)

Author(s): Janine Beacham

Children & Young Adult

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 . . .

General Information

  • : 9781510201316
  • : Hachette Children's Group
  • : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • : 0.218
  • : 01 February 2017
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 May 2017
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Janine Beacham
  • : Paperback
  • : 817
  • : en
  • : 248
  • : YFH

More About The Product

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.