Cirrus@Austlit

'Alice England and her friends are back for another adventure and another mystery to solve. It's summer holiday in Damocles Cove and Alice, Violet, and Cal are off to Archaeology Camp. Sure it's not the K-pop camp Violet wanted, or the days of video games that Cal was looking forward to, but Alice's enthusiasm carries them all off to the mysterious Malkin Tower and the spooky Pendle Woods. The work is hard, and the discoveries are small until one day a fellow camper turns up something unexpected that will plunge Alice and her friends into another murder mystery. Do curses really exist? Is a monster haunting Pendle Woods? And what is really going on with the adults at the camp?'  (Publication summary)

'Twelve-year-old Alice England is curious, truthful and smart, but when you work in your father's funeral home and you get messages from the dead, it can be difficult to make friends.

'When she comes across the peculiar case of George Devenish, who was allergic to sunlight, Alice is convinced there's more to his death than meets the eye.

'With the help of George's niece, 'Violet the Vampire', who shares her uncle's allergy, and a boy named Cal, who has secrets of his own, Alice begins to investigate. Who were the teenagers under the dock when George died? How is the sinister Doctor Grampian involved? And what about George's wife, Helen, whose baking is delicious but possibly poisonous?

'It seems the truth of George's death may never see the light of day unless Alice and her companions can put the clues together and solve a mystery much bigger than anybody expected.'  (Publication summary)