Book description
The war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh
and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the
eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find
more than they bargained for - a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal
face appears at a dark window . . .
Believing there's a skeleton haunting Shadows Lane, the children are
shocked to learn the truth about 'Boney' - he's an escaped prisoner of
war. But someone else is also hiding in the village - someone much
more dangerous.
Tense and chilling, this is another fantastically gripping tale from
the award-winning author of Room 13 and Stone Cold.
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local
newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then
worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a
number of bestselling children's titles for Random House. In 1994 he
won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold (Hamish Hamilton), a
teenage novel about a serial killer. Ruby Tanya won the Salford
Children's Book Award 2005.
'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' The
Sunday Times
'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're
afraid to turn the page' Young Telegraph
