Secrets from the deep

By Linda Fairstein

New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2018. Fiction, 279 p.

This is the 3rd book in the Devlin Quick mystery series and is the perfect book for all those mystery lovers out there who enjoy puzzles, pirates, and history.

Devlin Quick and her best friend Booker are on the case again while on vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Devlin is working on a school science project and getting water samples from the sea when they find an authentic pirate doubloon in her water sample. They turn the coin over to the local police but no one has declared it missing. Devlin, Booker, and Booker's younger cousin Zee decide to do their own investigating to find out where it came from and who it belongs to. They meet a lot of the local people as they are sleuthing and learn about the history of the island and the pirates who roamed the seas in the early 1700's. Do they find the owner of the gold coin? You will need to read the book to find out and along the way you may also discover a few secrets from the deep waters off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

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