The Skull

Hidden passageways…a suit of armor that moves…a small town with big secrets. Is there a better way to spend the summer?After purchasing a monkey skull at an estate sale following the death of the last of the town’s founding family, Remy is curious how the animal died. She enlists the aid of the school’s outcast—a teen with a strange fascination with dead animals. They team up with a runaway and together volunteer to straighten the shelves in the mansion’s library. But they have more than shelving books on their minds, because when Remy completed her reconstruction, she discovered that the skull wasn’t from an animal.There are others who know the skull is human. And there is one person who will stop at nothing to keep its identity a secret.In the tradition of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, three thirteen-year-olds dabble in CSI to reveal a town’s long-kept secret. Along the way, three unlikely friends discover their true talents.This mystery is appropriate for ages 11 to 111.(The author also writes the Chase Dagger series as Lee Driver as well as the Sam Casey series under her own name - S.D. Tooley)