Charlie's mother is about to be taken as a witch. She'll surely die - and Charlie too. With the aid of Balthazar, his mother's cat, Charlie escapes - but now he finds himself in another time, Northumbria four centuries earlier - and a different kind of danger! He's arrived for the prizegiving at the annual Feast of the Book. But just as the winner is about to be announced there's news of a different kind. One of the abbey monks has been found dead - horribly murdered. Charlie and his new-found friend Lady Marian are drawn into investigating the crime - but there's more to it than that. At the peril of their own lives can they solve a runic riddle and find the abbey's missing treasure? "The Riddle of the Poisoned Monk" is a fast-paced medieval mystery set in an ancient castle - with potfuls of potions, dark secrets and missing treasure. Sarah Matthias has written a thrilling adventure with lively characters that will appeal to 9-12's. This is a thrilling supernatural adventure story set in the Middle Ages. It is a lead fiction title from Catnip for Autumn 2006. It is paperback original. It is by highly promotable author. It has targeted marketing.

 

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Catnip Publishing Ltd .