The Pearl Thief

by Elizabeth Wein

Book, 2017

Publication

Disney-Hyperion (2017), 336 pages

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender girl) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen family – Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember – loved by the family, loathed by the authorities. Tensions are already high when a respected London archivist goes missing, presumed murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on the McEwens but Julie knows not one of them would do such a thing and is determined to prove everyone wrong. And then she notices the family's treasure trove of pearls is missing....

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