The Grinning Throat

The Grinning Throat (Book 1 The Mudlark mysteries Series)

By Kate Wiseman

Genre:-Children's Fiction-Age 9 years +

Pages:-256

Publisher:-ZunTold

Blurb:-'My first thought is that it's a pig that someone has lost to the river. Perhaps it fell off one of the barges that choke up the Thames. They're a constant feature, tolling up and down, day and night, giving off black smoke that clings to the water.'

 Joe (15) and Edie (13) are orphans living in Victorian London. Forever worried that they will be sent to the dreaded workhouse, they scratch out a living the best way they can by mudlarking on the foreshore of the River Thames and selling their finds to the nortorious Hempson. One day they discover something macabre, and it will change their lives forever.

 The Grinning Throat is the first in the trilogy of The Mudlark Mysteries.

Written by award winning author, Kate Wiseman, it is historical fiction at its best. Suitable for readers from 9 and upwards.

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My Review:-This is Book One in 'The Mudlark Mystery Series.' Since the death of both their parents,  Joe feels that it's up to him to protect and keep an eye out for Edie as much as he could. They had to make money in what ever way they could, mudlarking in the Thames, London was the best way they knew. Joe finds what at first he thought was a pig, but it wasn't. It was something that was going to change their lives forever. What could this be?

 The book was a fast read, with a few twists that you'll not expect. My granddaughter is 9-years-old and there was a few things I had to explain to her, but a part from that we enjoyed the book.