Book Review – Kidnap on the California Comet by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman
After his adventure on the Highland Falcon, amateur sleuth Hal Beck is excited to embark on another journey with his journalist uncle. This time, they’re set to ride the historic California Comet from Chicago to San Francisco.
Hal mostly keeps to himself on the trip, feeling homesick and out of place in America. But he soon finds himself drawn into another mystery when the young daughter of a billionaire tech entrepreneur goes missing!
Along with new friends – spunky 13-year-old Mason and his younger sister, Hadley – Hal races against the clock to find the missing girl before the California Comet reaches its final destination.
My rating:
I love this series! First, my little transport nerd heart is so happy (trains may not be my thing, but it still worked so well!) and you can see a real love of it through the pages.
Second, while I was sad we only kept Nat and Hal from the first book, the new characters were super fun! I loved how impressed they were with Hal, too, and quite rightly so!
The mystery here is more complicated than the first book, and while I suspected a couple of small things throughout and picked up a couple not long before reveals, there were definitely parts that really surprised me. Much like the first book, it is incredibly well plotted. Just enough clues to help the reader, and not so many that it’s obvious.
I can’t recommend these enough. If you like a middle-grade mystery, I honestly don’t know what you are waiting for. 5 stars.
Buy Kidnap on the California Comet from Waterstones.
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