A Ghost in the Garden

Its place in A Girl Called Justice

A Ghost in the Garden is book 3 in the A Girl Called Justice series. It follows The Smugglers' Secret. It is followed by The Spy at the Window. See the full A Girl Called Justice reading order.

Elly Griffiths's only series for younger readers sends eleven-year-old Justice Jones to Highbury House, a boarding school for the "Daughters of Gentlefolk" on the edge of a Sussex marsh, after the death of her mother. Justice is a super-smart, super-observant sleuth in the Golden Age tradition -- equal parts Nancy Drew and a young Miss Marple -- who can't help noticing the things adults miss: a missing maid, a suspicious new teacher, a body that shouldn't be where it is. Griffiths sets the series in the 1930s…