A boy makes a terrible discovery and must clear his family's name in this action-packed thriller.

When thirteen-year-old Oz Keiller stumbles upon a dead body, his life is thrown into a tailspin. His older brother is the prime suspect in the murder, and Oz soon learns that the crime may be tied to the death of his father years earlier-a father who was accused of selling nuclear secrets to rogue governments.
The fate-and livelihood-of his family is hanging by a thread, and it's up to Oz to try and crack the case, with the help of his best friend, Rusty. It's a quest that has more twists and turns than the dusty roads of New Mexico-and the answer may be closer to home than Oz ever could have imagined.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Simon & Schuster .

Julia Platt Leonard has been a television reporter, pastry chef & bread baker for Todd English, and a food consultant. She lives in London with her family. When she's not dreaming about what's for dinner or thinking up new stories, she is a freelance copy writer and recipe tester. Cold Case is her first novel.