Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen's jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?
The Girl Who Stole the Apple
β Scribed by Tickler, Peter
- Publisher
- Joffe Books Mystery, Crime Thriller, Psychological Suspense Fiction
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Who can you trust? Who wants you dead? They'll kill for what they think you have. A little girl dressed in a Snow White costume walks into a store and steals an apple . . . then the store blows up. One of the staff, Maggie Rogers, is conveniently out of the store when all this happens. Maggie turns out to have a past full of secrets and betrayal, and attracts the attention of the police as well as more sinister forces. Maggie and the little girl end up on the run, not knowing whoβs on their side or even what their pursuers really want. Then they seem to have reached the end of the line. Nowhere else to run, nowhere else to hide. Maggie and the little girl face a desperate struggle for survival. Find out the answers in this beautifully written novel which will take you on a darkly gripping journey to a surprising end.
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