The Disappearance and the Diary

The first installment in a cozy historical fiction mystery series for middle-graders, in which two lockets have been passed through the Linden family for decades–and generation after generation, those necklaces are at the center of family secrets.
A girl from a wealthy family must defend her ladys maid from accusations of theft in this first book in the cozy historical fiction The Manor Mysteries series that follows two heirloom lockets through generations of the same family.

Peggy Eldritch cant wait to turn twelve and receive the heirloom Margaret locket! The necklace originally belonged to her great-grandmother Margaret Linden. Every girl named Margaret in the family has been gifted it on her twelfth birthdayand Peggys turn has finally arrived.

When Juliette, Peggys cousin from France, visits Linden Manor for the birthday ball and another family heirloom goes mysteriously missing, Peggy finds herself on a quest