The Haunted Sand

Hugh Scott makes his readers work - here characters are word-sketched and clues are scattered in the text, piecing together to make the whole picture. The reader struggles alongside the characters to unravel the mystery of ancient relics found in the sand - a detective on the inside of the case is a detective wholly participating! This is a contemporary story of confusion, guilt, greed and death with parallels in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries: motive and message are echoed over five centuries and neither lose their potency. An unmissable book for Years 8 and 9 - buy a class set.