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In the second book of this laugh-out-loud mystery series, Jay Patel investigates a murder in a fancy country hotel where the cause of death appears to beEsoup! While Jay is surrounded by suspects, his Grandad has his own informants--the ghosts haunting the hotel. Illustrations.x 7 13/16.
About the author
David MacPhail has worked as a chicken wrangler, a ghost-tour guide and a waiter on a tropical island, and he now has the sensible job of writing about yetis and Vikings. David is also the author of An Amazing Illustrated Atlas of Scotland and the Lollies-nominated Thorfinn the Nicest Viking series, the Top-Secret Grandad series, and the Velda the Awesomest Viking series. He lives in Perthshire, Scotland.Laura Aviñó is an illustrator who lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Summary
Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician!), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his ghostly grandad, he's on a new case -- a murder in a fancy country hotel where the cause of death appears to be -- soup!
While Jay is surrounded by suspects, Grandad has his own informants -- the ghosts haunting the hotel. But will they catch the killer before it's too ladle?
David Walliams meets Agatha Christie in the soup-er second book of a new laugh-out-loud, weird-and-wacky mystery series for younger readers, by the author of Thorfinn the Nicest Viking.
