Three kids are filming a movie at an old manor house in the Highlands of Scotland when strange and nefarious events start to happen. Teaming up with some local kids, the gang take it upon themselves to figure out what’s going on.
This felt to me like an old fashioned children’s book, in the vein of Enid Blyton (albeit with 100% less “swarthy foreigners”). The kids are all likeable and they get up to good old fashioned shenanigans. As is typical in these sorts of books, adult authority is mostly just not present, and is ineffectual when it is, leaving the kids to just get on with things (in between filming). At times the fact that it’s a debut novel shows, but it’s mostly a rip-roaring tale that trundles along at a good pace and is a lot of fun.
Note: I know the author and got an ARC of this book, but this hasn’t influenced my review.