A Deadly Mistake

Scottish Mystery Series

By: JP Dumas

Narrated by: Katie Airey

Fourteen-year-old reporter Devon MacDonald has a right to be paranoid. His last case nearly got him killed. But his reckless best friend, Zack, is addicted to the thrill, dragging a terrified Devon to Birchwood Cemetery at midnight. They don't find a story. They find a freshly dug grave—and the men who are digging it.

When a body surfaces by the local loch, the police arrest the new kid in town and his wealthy father, thanks to a perfectly planted shovel. Devon and Zack know the real killers are still free, but going to the cops is impossible.

They’re already being hunted.

Two ruthless men in a "London Movers" van are stalking their every move, and they've made their intentions chillingly clear: "I haven't gotten rid of those two kids yet." This isn't just a small-town murder; it's a conspiracy that stretches from London, and Devon and Zack are the only loose ends.

Trapped between a detective who won't listen and a pair of killers who won't stop, the boys are in a desperate race. Can they expose the truth before they are silenced for good, or will they be the next ones buried in a shallow grave?

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Spellbinding!

Teenagers Devon and Zach have a penchant for sleuthing and dead of night thrills. Zach, the leader, is clever but impulsive while Devon is observant. It was Devin who first noticed that foul smell and pick up on clues about an unfathomable incident in their sleepy Scottish town.

At same time posh Seth and his family moved in from London. The guy was a poster boy. Would he be fit in?

Some friends will join in their quest sprinkled with teenage crushes and all!

But it is Devin and Zach, and their innocent escapade into the local cemetery, that would turn these novice detectives into haunted preys.

How will they outsmart the killers?