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Frankie Jackson Mysteries #2
I Didn't Steal Your Mermaid
Honorable Mention Winner - 2013 LeapFrog Press Fiction Contest
From the author of I Didn’t Kill Your Cat.
Have you ever heard a mermaid sing? 12-year old Frankie Jackson has … and now she’s in a mess of trouble.
“Set in the fascinating world of Sausalito’s houseboat community, I Didn't Steal Your Mermaid features the inimitable adventures of Frankie Jackson, surely the cleverest and most endearing 12-year old to ever match wits with evil doers.”
-- Jake Warner, www.jakestales.org
From the author of I Didn’t Kill Your Cat.
Have you ever heard a mermaid sing? 12-year old Frankie Jackson has … and now she’s in a mess of trouble.
“Set in the fascinating world of Sausalito’s houseboat community, I Didn't Steal Your Mermaid features the inimitable adventures of Frankie Jackson, surely the cleverest and most endearing 12-year old to ever match wits with evil doers.”
-- Jake Warner, www.jakestales.org
294 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 21, 2012
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February 2, 2024
The whole mermaid thing was just way too weird. It would have been better without it. I wasn't a fan of the narrator. She has a nice voice but the infection didn't always match the situation.
April 15, 2015
"I Didn't Steal Your Mermaid" is another wonderfully fantastic Frankie Jackson mystery. It just gets better. Entertaining for all ages, don't forget to check out "I Didn't Kill Your Cat" the first Frankie Jackson mystery if you haven't already.
Taking place after I Didn't Kill Your Cat Frankie has officially been on the Dock for a month with her "Aunt" Roxy, and something fishy is going down. Candy Hunter's body is found in the water after falling overboard her yacht, and the million dollar "Mermaid's Tears" necklace she was wearing was found to be missing. Frankie doesn't get pulled in though until she becomes the only reliable witness to a plane crash and an unknown suspicious character lurking on the water. After talking to the cops and newspaper things snowball down hill for Frankie, a dangerous "Uncle Sam" creeping about, a surprise unwelcome return from a previous Dock resident, trouble with the law, and Frankie's mom wants her back in New Jersey to keep her safe. Pronto. Whatever will she do?
Taking place after I Didn't Kill Your Cat Frankie has officially been on the Dock for a month with her "Aunt" Roxy, and something fishy is going down. Candy Hunter's body is found in the water after falling overboard her yacht, and the million dollar "Mermaid's Tears" necklace she was wearing was found to be missing. Frankie doesn't get pulled in though until she becomes the only reliable witness to a plane crash and an unknown suspicious character lurking on the water. After talking to the cops and newspaper things snowball down hill for Frankie, a dangerous "Uncle Sam" creeping about, a surprise unwelcome return from a previous Dock resident, trouble with the law, and Frankie's mom wants her back in New Jersey to keep her safe. Pronto. Whatever will she do?
January 18, 2014
I'm very glad I read this book. The characters were perfect, loved Frankie, loved her dreams, loved her narration. Loved Forgetting Michael, very clever and worked perfectly in union with Frankie. After finding out about the zany characters that lived in house-boots on the dock, I wanted to visit for much longer. some might argue that the mystery was solved in an unbelievable or impossible way, but it was very charming and worked for me. Good story, there wasn't a time when I wanted to put it down.
October 2, 2020
Mermaid and a solved cold case
Frankie again teams up with her friends, trying to solve a cold case
Mystery. Stalked by a man and spying vivian, forgetting Michael's
awful mother. Can she put all the pieces together in time, to keep
herself from being put on charges of theft and being prosecuted.
Read this action filled mystery to find out. Will there be a happy
ending, and will Frankie get her ipod back from the Mermaid who
Knows, maybe?
Debra H.
Frankie again teams up with her friends, trying to solve a cold case
Mystery. Stalked by a man and spying vivian, forgetting Michael's
awful mother. Can she put all the pieces together in time, to keep
herself from being put on charges of theft and being prosecuted.
Read this action filled mystery to find out. Will there be a happy
ending, and will Frankie get her ipod back from the Mermaid who
Knows, maybe?
Debra H.
July 31, 2013
What a great part 2!
If possible, I think this book was better than the first one, the characters are more developed and the plot has more twists.
Highly recommend!!
Basicly:
Girl finds a murder, and attempts to solve it, while getting herself into trouble along the way.
Read this! Read it now! (seriously it'll only take like 2.5 hours)(also free on amazon)(No excuses!)
If possible, I think this book was better than the first one, the characters are more developed and the plot has more twists.
Highly recommend!!
Basicly:
Girl finds a murder, and attempts to solve it, while getting herself into trouble along the way.
Read this! Read it now! (seriously it'll only take like 2.5 hours)(also free on amazon)(No excuses!)
February 5, 2019
Okay
I thoroughly enjoy reading these type of children books, for they always teach my children an important life lesson in a simple and easy way that they can understand. It's important for children today to have morals, and the only way that they will obtain them is if they are taught from a young age.
I thoroughly enjoy reading these type of children books, for they always teach my children an important life lesson in a simple and easy way that they can understand. It's important for children today to have morals, and the only way that they will obtain them is if they are taught from a young age.
February 26, 2015
So cool. I wish there was a series. Wait, is there?
I love this book. I have read this book 7 times. I looooooooooooovvvvvvvve it!!!!! I is so cool, I wish that there was a whole series. Like, how did Frankie get arrested for playing baseball? When are you going to tell us?
I love this book. I have read this book 7 times. I looooooooooooovvvvvvvve it!!!!! I is so cool, I wish that there was a whole series. Like, how did Frankie get arrested for playing baseball? When are you going to tell us?
December 21, 2019
The first book in the series was pretty clean with no language problems, but in this one some of the characters started using the Lord's name in vain. I don't think swearing should be a part of children's literature. So I didn't finish it.
October 18, 2020
Loved the tension, the line between dreams and reality is so thin. Reminds you that dreams can become a reality. Looove the series each time i read them i want more. The end was so interesting and unexpected. I appreciate that books like this still exist making a book sounds easy i tried and hard.
July 4, 2017
Highly recommend.
Very good and gripping mystery within a mystery. All clues are present for the answers to be believable. Just watch out for the red herrings...
Very good and gripping mystery within a mystery. All clues are present for the answers to be believable. Just watch out for the red herrings...
March 27, 2019
You need to read this book.
It is not a romance novel or an action novel. No, it is an intricate tale of innocence triumphant. Read it.
It is not a romance novel or an action novel. No, it is an intricate tale of innocence triumphant. Read it.
March 3, 2020
Kids books should not have foul language
Foul language and sexual content. I would not let my child read this. If it was a clean story it would have been better.
Foul language and sexual content. I would not let my child read this. If it was a clean story it would have been better.
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