A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers' Secret

The dark shape of Highbury House was getting closer and closer. Justice told herself that she knew the place now – its turrets and spooky ramparts no longer had the power to scare her. But the school was a daunting sight in the twilight, looming up out of the flat marshland, birds – or possibly bats – circling the four towers. There was still snow on the ground here – although, in London, the streets had been clear for weeks. Justice was glad that she had Dad beside her, humming a little tune, his hands relaxed on the steering wheel. It was far better than her first journey to the boarding school, when she’d been alone in a taxi driven by the sinister Nye.‘How are you feeling?’ asked Dad, as if he understood. ‘All right,’ said Justice. ‘I’m looking forward to seeing Stella and Dorothy again.’‘Stella’s a nice girl,’ said Dad. She had visited their house in the Christmas holidays.‘She is,’ said Justice. ‘She’s sometimes a bit reluctant to break school rules though.’Dad’s mouth twitched. ‘Try not to break too many rules this term, Justice.’ Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her second spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton. When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it's not long before murder is back on her mind. Assigned to look after the elderly Mr Arthur in Smugglers' Lodge on the other side of the marshes from school, Justice is initially dismayed. But dismay quickly gives way to intrigue as she finds herself drawn to Mr Arthur and his stories of piloting in the First World War - and especially when Dorothy, who lives nearby, tells her that the lodge is haunted. But when Mr Arthur dies in mysterious circumstances, Justice soon has a list of questions in her journal: why hasn't he been given a proper military funeral? Why does the new Matron not seem to know much about First Aid? And what secrets does Smugglers' Lodge really hold? Justice sets out to uncover the deadly truth in this brilliant follow-up to A Girl Called Justice.