Trade Secret

By TJ Perkins

Kelly accompanies her mom and dad on a business trip to Cairo, Egypt, which just happens to coincide with a visit from the world's most successful cat burglar, who is there to steal a rare gold coin - the key to unlocking a hidden treasure. A prize worth the thief's life if not retrieved in a timely fashion. Little does the cat burglar know that Detective Eddie Bancroft is in hot pursuit to prevent the theft and catch who cannot be caught.

Tension builds as seemingly random mishaps follow Kelly and their guide, who is in possession of the coin, or is it an ancient curse? Kelly feels that it's linked to the mysterious hieroglyphics on the coin, which matchs the symbols of a recently opened crypt.

When Kim and her mom arrive in Cairo, Kelly fills her in on the mysterious happenings. Determined to unravel the link between the coin, the theif and the encounters, Kim and Kelly team up with Detective Eddie Bancroft to crack the case and discover the cat burglar's secret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TJ Perkins
• Release date: Mar 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9780977753826

TJ Perkins

TJ Perkins is a gifted and well-respected author in the mystery/suspense, Fantasy & New Age genres. A former member of the Maryland Writer’s Association and Sisters In Crime, her short stories for young readers have appeared in the Ohio State 6th Grade Proficiency Test Preparation Book, Kid’s Highway Magazine, and Webzine ‘New Works Review,’ just to name a few. She’s placed five times in the CNW/FFWA chapter book competition. Her short story of light horror for tweens, The Midnight Watch, was published Oct 2007 by Demon Minds Magazine, as well as innumerable short stories in many anthologies.Finished works of her young reader’s chapter books are entitled: The Fire and the Falcon (which won two chapter book awards), Wound Too Tight, Mystery of the Attic, and On Forbidden Ground. Published books in the Kim & Kelly Mystery Series include: Fantasies Are Murder, The Secret in Phantom Forest, Trade Secret, Image in the Tapestry (which won a chapter book award) and In the Grand Scheme of Things (all with GumShoe Press 2006). The Shadow Legacy series was published by Silver Leaf Books and picture book Four Little Withes was published by Schiffer Books and won the 2016 COVR Visionary Art Award.You can find TJ at many Cons on the East Coast as well as FarieCon and the MD Renaissance Festival.