The Christmas Mystery

Ruth Lillegraven

Original title: Julemysteriet
Publisher: Det Norske Samlaget, 2021
Genre: Detective series for children, 6- 9 years
Pages: 80 pages

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The fourth book of the popular suspense series The Rescue Planet Club

Vanja and Sivert are looking forward to showing Mo the annual Christmas Market. Every year the town square is filled with market stalls and in the middle of the square Vanja’s parents are going to put up an enormous Christmas tree. And on top of all this, every year Santa Claus pays a visit on a sleigh drawn by real reindeer!

But this year the market is a disappointment. There is no snow on the ground when the Planet Rescue Club arrives at the Christmas Market. And when the moment comes for the lighting of the Christmas tree, they discover that someone has chopped the tree into pieces. And Santa Claus doesn’t even arrive with his reindeer!

Who has destroyed the Christmas tree? And what happened to Santa Claus? Can there be a connection between these two mysteries?

Foreign rights

Swedish: Bokförlaget Hedvig

Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven debuted in 2005 with a collection of poetry entitled Big Bad Poems. Since then, she has published a novel, six poetry collections as well as children books. Her work has been nominated for several prizes and she was awarded, among other distinctions, The Brage Prize and Nynorsk Literature Prize. Her first psychological crime thriller, Everything is Mine (Alt er mitt), is the first in a series, with huge sucess and multiple international sales, as well as film rights sold to Nordisk film. Blood Ties is the second volume in the “Clara – series”.