The Girls and the Ghost

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About the Book

Two cousins’ search for a hiding place in the family manor turns into a spooky discovery in this second book in the cozy historical fiction The Manor Mysteries series that follows two heirloom lockets through generations of the same family.

Thea Beekman can’t wait for her cousin Peggy to visit America and be there when she receives the heirloom Dorothea necklace on her twelfth birthday, as is custom for every girl named Dorothea in the extended Linden family. But the trip is cut short when news arrives of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

With talk of war on the horizon, Peggy is ordered to return home, but Thea knows the perfect hiding place to help her stay. A wing of Beekman Manor is rumored to be haunted, and as the girls explore, they find a hidden passageway and a trove of family secrets. What they find might change everything they thought they knew about their great-grandmothers.

About the Author

Eileen Biltmore is a writer, fine art curator, and amateur baker who loves nothing better than a cup of tea and a good book on a rainy day. When she’s not penning cozy mysteries for young readers, she is scouring rummage sales and thrift shops for the perfect antique art pieces to cover the walls of her fixer-upper Victorian home. She lives with her family and three black cats.

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VERDICT: "A great way to introduce readers to historical fiction and cozy mysteries, this novel gives a nod toward the supernatural while addressing the impact of war and social movements."

– School Library Journal, August 2026

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