A gripping murder mystery from the well-loved and award-winning author of the Flambards series. A body in the lake - and a murderer on the loose . . . When thirteen-year-old Arnold sees a dead body floating in a lake, he finds himself in deep trouble. For now someone is trying to kill him too - to wipe out the only witness! His only chance of escape seems to lie in taking up his new friend Jodie's suggestion to join her on a schools orchestra tour in the Highlands of Scotland. It won't matter that he can't play a note of music. The important thing is that he will be safe. Or will he? For the murderer is a desperate killer who will stop at nothing . . .
Author Biography
'THERE ARE VERY FEW BORN STORY-TELLERS. K.M. PEYTON IS ONE OF THEM' The Times Kathleen M Peyton is a top-selling author of more than thirty novels, the best-known of which is FLAMBARDS which, with its sequels, was made into a TV serial. She lives in Essex with her husband.