For 9-10 year old girls
Crash! And there lay Kim's father in the dirty alley, soaked to the skin and covered in mud and blood, his day's takings from the shop, gone! Then there was poor old Bridie, eighty-six years old and robbed of all her shopping!
"Why?" asks Kim. "Who would do such things?"
Horrified, she wishes she were back at Blamtree, with her dear old pal Jaimie, far away from this miserable new district where folks were mean enough to steal from frail old ladies and mug friendly, hard-working shopkeepers.
But her new chum, Colin, cheers her up. "Keep your eyes and ears open," he tells her, and by so doing they get their first clue. But was it such a mistake for folk to be seen eating lemoncurd sandwiches? What a lot Kim finds she has to write to Jaimie as she sets out with Colin – "On the Lemoncurd Trail".
