Love Charms

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers.

Laura''s adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just as she does each year. This time it''s a golden cat and it''s gorgeous! But at her birthday sleepover som...