Bøger af Rosalind Barden

Mad Cannibal Terrorizes Downtown!Orphaned 11-year-old amateur girl sleuth Sparky returns in another noirish adventure, set in the sketchy milieu of 1930s Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles.The clock is ticking as Sparky tries to track down stolen precious jewels . . . while, at the same time, a gourmet cannibal is on the loose in the city, seeking new prey. Just who is this devious diner?As the suspect count escalates, Sparky's protector, the former silent-movie star Tootsie, is oblivious to the danger. She's too busy getting Sparky back to school. No! Meanwhile, with her stalwart pal Bobby out of town, Sparky ¿nds herself sometimes annoyed, sometimes fascinated by the mysterious boy who works in a most peculiar pet shop.With so much crime and so little time, can Sparky avoid being collared for the caper-and elude being the next item on the dining menu!-by uncovering the identity of the cannibal?Rosalind Barden's follow-up to bestselling The Cold Kid Case is a fast-paced, unforgettable romp through Depression-era downtown Los Angeles that's a fun cozy historical read for tweens to grownups. Follow more crime-solving misadventures of Sparky, the most unlikely amateur sleuth, with The Monkey Island Murder: A Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery, The South Seas Shenanigans: A Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery, and coming in 2025, The Catalina Cahoots: A Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery.Critters Readers Poll Winner for Best Young Adult Book and Top 10 Finisher for Best Mystery Novel.

Bloody Crime Spree of the Century!Meet Sparky, an orphaned, street-savvy 11-year-old living by her wits in the Depression-era Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. She is on a mission to clear her name after being accused of the murder of a little girl whose body she discovers on a park bench-talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! And things only get worse when Sparky is blamed for ever more outrageous crimes until her body count is ridiculous.Will Sparky be able to summon the gumption to solve the crime and clear her name?Rosalind Barden crafts an unforgettable and uniquely zany mystery, filled with a web of colorful characters, recalling the charm of decades past, with Hollywood, movie stars, mobsters, and, of course, murder.The Cold Kid Case, the first in Rosalind Barden's Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery series, has been awarded multiple accolades, including the Firebird Book Award 1st Place for Cozy Mysteries. The crime-solving misadventures of Sparky, the most unlikely amateur sleuth, continue with The Cannibal Caper, The Monkey Island Murder, The South Seas Shenanigans, and coming in 2025, The Catalina Cahoots.

Lots of characters have it bad, in my Bunker Hill neighborhood smack dab in the middle of Los Angeles, but I've had it rougher than most.There may be something to this 13th business.That's my birthday, and I'm learning to dread seeing it roll around. My mother died on one birthday. The cousins dumped me on my last. This year, 1932, I found a dead kid on a park bench. It's my eleventh birthday, and the day me, Sparky, ended up on the run, wanted for murder. If the dead girl wasn't enough, the dirty newspapers pinned every body in LA on me, and even blamed me for the Great War. I wasn't even born then. The price on my head got bigger by the day. It was up to me to find out who killed the girl and why I got framed, before I ended up dangling from the hangman's rope.