Honour Among Ghosts

Honour Among Ghosts is a high-action historical mystery set in a small Irish village where there are sorcerers, moralistic ghosts and spell-scribbling scribes. When 12-year-old Penny's working-class father is thrown into jail for a burglary he didn't commit, she is convinced he has been framed. Her best friend Colm, son of the wealthy and prejudiced Magistrate Nightwick (both the sentencer and victim of the robbery), vows to help Penny solve the crime. Enter Mab, a confident and clever magical scribe's apprentice, and Niclas, a young traveller living on the streets, who join forces with Penny and Colm to try to catch the thief before more innocent townspeople are blamed.