Fleur Hitchcock 
Dear Scarlett 

All this time Scarlett's thought her dad was a thief, but years after his death a strange man turns up at the door and hands her a box, ‘on her father's instructions’. Inside is a baffling series of clues that leads Scarlett and her friend, Ellie, on a wild, scary, often funny journey of discovery about her father and his mysterious life. But the more the girls learn, the more danger they're in. They must stay one step ahead of the sinister mayoress and her chauffer as they race to unravel her dad's final clue: Keep looking up…
From the acclaimed author of Saving Sophia and Murder in Midwinter.
‘Fleur Hitchcock has cornered the market in hard-boilers for beginners.’ – Alex O'Connell, The Times

Over de auteur

Born in Chobham and raised outside Winchester, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. She spent her smallest years reading Tintin and Batman, and searching for King Alfred's treasure. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur works with her husband, a toymaker, looks after other people's gardens and tries to grow vegetables.