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Howell and I found it to be a very good read, just as the first was.

This was the second historical mystery I’ve read by A.M. This involves much more of an adventure than they were expecting. Slowly, Ruth befriends the reluctant Joe, and the two team up to solve the secret of the treasure and save the farm. There is also a farm girl, Audrey, who has come during the war and continues to work there and her fiancé Terry, who works close by and comes to visit.Īs Ruth’s mother investigates the site, a few more discoveries are made but she wishes to discuss things further with Mr Knight and heads off to town to fetch him, while Ruth asks to remain on the farm for a few days and help. On the other hand, her son Joe, a few years older than Ruth, seems to resent Ruth and her mother’s presence. But things at the farm are very different from what Ruth expects-Mrs Sterne-Mary-has recently lost her husband and is struggling to make ends meet, and has hopes that this treasure will come to their rescue. As Mr Knight is away on a dig, Ruth convinces her mother to travel down to Rook farm to make some preliminary investigations (which she feels will help towards getting a job at the Museum). The message is from a Mrs Sterne at Rook Farm who has found some Roman artefacts when digging in her field, and wants the museum to investigate. As the telephone rings in Mr Knight’s office, Ruth answers and takes a message but out of fear and a little confusion cannot pass it on to Mr Knight. Harriett hopes to get a paid position at the Museum so that they can keep their house, and as the book opens, is having an interview with a curator Mr Knight, a not-very-pleasant man, while Ruth waits outside. In The Secret of the Treasure Keepers, we meet twelve-year-old Ruth Goodspeed, who lives with her mother Harriett who is a volunteer at the British Museum the war has driven her parents apart and her dad has moved out of their home. Howell, which takes into the world of archaeology and on a quest for treasures from Roman England, set in the period just following the Second World War when people were still coping with what had happened, and its impact on the world around them was all too visible.

The Secret of the Treasure Keepers is another exciting middle-grade historical mystery from the pen of A. My thanks to Usborne Publishing and NetGalley for a review copy of this book