Belinda and the Missing Will

A missing will. A crumbling mansion. A stone griffin that seems to be watching.

When Belinda Robinson discovers that kind old Miss Higgins has been living in poverty, with her electricity cut off and barely enough to eat, she is determined to help. Miss Higgins' father wrote a second will before he died, one that would have changed everything. But the will vanished after his death, and no one has found it since.

Together with her friends Kate and Amanda, Belinda searches Miss Higgins' crumbling mansion from the tower above the rooftops to the secret rooms hidden deep in its walls. They even start selling Miss Higgins' famous cumquat jam to help her make ends meet.

But the house is strangely bare. Where has forty years of furniture and belongings gone? And why does the stone griffin on the rooftop seem to watch them wherever they go?

Meanwhile, Belinda's grandmother Matilda, who has a few extraordinary secrets of her own, keeps a careful eye on proceedings. And the talking Siamese cat Sennacherib seems to know far more than any cat should.

Some old houses hold secrets far stranger than a hidden will. And Belinda is about to find out just how strange.

Book 3 in the Belinda Robinson series, cosy middle-grade mysteries where everyday adventures meet gentle magic.