Angol
The carousel horse Wrenhaven has loved for generations is not the one that stood there last spring. And the woman accused of stealing it is the only person who loved it enough to doubt it.
Wrenhaven is gearing up for its 125th Founders Festival: the relighting of its century-old carousel, and the return of the Firebird, the horse a local hero supposedly saved from the Flood of 1976. Sixteen-year-old photographer Piper Halloran has shot the Firebird a hundred times, so she is the first to notice the missing ear chip, the gold leaf that no longer matches. When her photos become the only proof a theft happened, the town does what small towns do best: it decides someone convenient did it, and that someone is the museum curator, her best friend Rey's own great-aunt.
Piper and Rey, a local-history obsessive who can find anything online in eleven minutes, are not buying it. With their friend Theo running snack-shack intelligence under semi-official protest, the girls dig up a fifty-year-old secret buried under the town's favorite legend, racing to clear an innocent woman before festival night makes the wrong story permanent.
Book 1 of The Wrenhaven Mysteries, where the clues play fair, the danger stays bloodless, and every book solves its own case. Read in any order, best in order.
A twisty, warm-hearted mystery for readers 12 to 18, and for anyone who grew up reading with a flashlight.
