A gripping thriller for readers who like danger and mystery and chills and spills from the comfort of their sofas... Unputdownable.
The Times and Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week.
"Much more Junior Line of Duty than Junior Miss Marple" - The Sunday Times
"Just the right level of intrigue and jeopardy" - The Times
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...
Fleur Hitchcock Biography
When she was eight, Fleur wrote a story about an alien and a jelly. It was called The Alien and the Jelly. She grew up a little, studied English, and, for twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. All that time she wrote hundreds of press releases and a few stories, but in the end motherhood won and she retr
