The Secret of Helmersbruck Manor

by EVA FRANTZ, Annie Prime (Translator), Elin Sandström (Illustrator)

Overview

A SPOOKILY MAGICAL CHRISTMAS TALE FULL OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE, from the prize-winning author of The Mystery of Raspberry Hill

Twelve-year-old Flora Winter and her mother are off to the small seaside town of Helmersbruk for Christmas. When they arrive, Flora soon discovers an abandoned mansion straight out of a fairytale.
But it's not just the manor that's mysterious - porcelain figures are appearing out of nowhere, a strange boy in a green cap seeks her friendship, and she hears eerie whispers in the night.
Flora is determined to unravel the secrets of Helmersbruk Manor - but as the clock ticks down to Christmas, Flora must solve the mystery before time runs out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782694182
Publisher:	Steerforth Press
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	983,139
Product dimensions:	6.94(w) x 9.72(h) x 0.95(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Eva Frantz is a Finnish author and journalist. She was already an award-winning writer of crime novels for grown-ups when she wrote her first book for children, The Mystery of Raspberry Hill, which won the Runeberg Junior Prize. She currently lives in a lovely yellow house in Esbo with a lovely husband and three mostly lovely children. The Secret of Helmersbruk Manor is her second spooky book for children published by Pushkin Press.

A. A. Prime is an award-winning translator of Swedish and Finland-Swedish literary fiction and non-fiction. She also writes, edits, reviews books, and translates from Russian, Spanish and French.

Elin Sandström is a Swedish illustrator and graphic designer with an eye for the supernatural and ghostly.