by Gwyneth Rees · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330434539
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«The Mum Detective» is Gwyneth Rees's children's mystery novel, published by Macmillan Children's Books in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Esmie, a girl who dreams of being a detective like her father, faces two mysteries: the disappearance of the mother of her brother's fiancée and the strange secret dates of Lizzie, her father's girlfriend. Between clues in the vegetable garden and her determination to keep her family together, Esmie tries to prove her investigative talent.
Second installment of the «Mum» series, published in August 2005; the work originally appeared in 2003 under the title «The Mum Hunt».
Recommended for children's and young adult readers aged 9 and up, especially those interested in mystery stories.
Gwyneth Rees is a British author of children's books. Her novel The Mum Hunt won the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers in 2019, and another, My Mum's from Planet Pluto, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in the same year. Her other popular books for younger children include the Fairy Dust series, the first of which was an Ottakar's Book of the Month choice, and the Mermaid Magic trilogy.
