The Thief Knot

By Kate Milford,

Book cover of The Thief Knot: A Greenglass House Story

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Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realizes that this could be the excitement…

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1 author picked The Thief Knot as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In this standalone addition to the Greenglass House series, Kate Milford has built a world of cozy and adventurous specificity.

It’s set mostly in the Liberty of Gammerbund, a walled municipality within the city of Nagspeake, a New England-ish coastal community populated by lots of former smugglers and pirates. Marzana and her friend Nialla learn that a girl from a neighboring school has been kidnapped, and they believe she sent a coded message using a book from a series they read obsessively. Marzana puts together a group of plucky kids (including one ghost) to solve the crime.

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