"A thoroughly enjoyable read with a strong plot, great characters and lots of laughs."
Kit and his family have moved from Nottingham to the Scottish Highlands and to say it’s a culture shock is putting it mildly. The wi-fi is practically non-existent, the neighbours like shooting things, and he’s overwhelmed by the ‘bigness’ of the landscape. When his little brother Jack finds the tag from a missing Golden Eagle, Kit decides to investigate the crime for his school project. This causes some raised eyebrows as the finger of suspicion points firmly at Kit’s neighbours, a local farmer, a very bad-tempered gamekeeper and the local landowner, who happens to be dad to the school’s most popular pupil, Tamora. The stakes get higher when Kit discovers a pair of Golden Eagles on their eyrie. With help from Tamora, Kit sets out to protect the eagles which involves him and Jack in some pretty risky situations, not least a gallop across the heather on the back of Tamora’s horse.
A whodunnit with a very effective environmental theme, this is also very funny, Kit’s comic commentary prompts lots of laughs as will some of the situations in which he finds himself. A thoroughly enjoyable read with a strong plot, great characters and lots of laughs.
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