Sherrill Joseph
Sherrill Joseph
Sherrill Joseph was a shy kid whose BFF was Nancy Drew. From her, the author learned to seek adventures, be kind and fair, help others everywhere, and become a
mystery author someday. In 2013, her dream came true. After retiring from thirty-five years of teaching, she morphed into a Middle Grade (ages 9-12) author of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries series. Via her mysteries with a twist of obscure history, she presents some of her own interests to kids, hoping they will learn the value of pioneers whose work then makes life better now.
www.sherrilljoseph.com
Nutmeg Street: Egyptian Secrets
Book #1 in The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:
World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly two months ago in disgrace. His widow, Ida Thornsley, knows her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt last summer, but local and federal law enforcement officers...
Eucalyptus Street: Green Curse
Book #2 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:
In 1945, Isabela de Cordoba’s great-grandfather, silent movie actor Lorenzo de Cordoba, mysteriously hid a legendary, multimillion-dollar emerald somewhere on the family’s sprawling estate. Nicknamed the “Green Curse,” the emerald is blamed for the family’s numerous, untimely deaths. Enter, the Botanic...
Walnut Street: Phantom Rider
Book #3 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:
Objects of value have been disappearing from the Mayfield family’s rural California horse ranch. The Botanic Hill Detectives—Moki Kalani, Rani Kumar, and twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt—are hired to come for a week to investigate.
Legend has it somewhere on the...
Saffron Street: Island Danger
A Tahitian black pearl necklace, missing for over eighty years, takes the thirteen-year-old Botanic Hill detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—from California to Oʿahu in one of the squad’s most baffling cases yet!
The teens’ famous elderly neighbor Mr. Itsuki Yamada hires them to find his family’s valuable heirloom necklace. Soon,...
Jacaranda Street: Gravestone Image (The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries)
Lenore Valentine Kirby’s cryptic gravestone in a derelict cemetery beckons across centuries.
The four Botanic Hill Detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—stumble upon a mystery revealed by the deceased woman’s descendant, Mr. Nigel Kirby. Can the teens decipher Lenore Kirby's gravestone image and messages? Their unusual, present-day case, incorporating the life...
Upas Street: Shocking Specter
Botanic Hill series book #6.
A fearless quartet of teen sleuths, the Botanic Hill detectives, travel to Llanfair, a fictitious Welsh village in present-day California, to solve the mystery of the Shocking Specter. The green-glowing apparition reportedly roams the countryside, setting fire to buildings and meadows during the new moon....
Bougainvillea Street: Stolen Tiara
The Wild West Californio days have returned with a vengeance in this confounding, present-day mystery!
Our teen detectives return home to Las Palmitas, California, from solving a mystery abroad. Their neighbor, Señor Antonio Del Castillo, owner of one of the original Spanish land grant
Macadamia Street: Hidden Skeleton
Book #7 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries Series.
The detectives travel to England, hoping to find the notorious pirate One-Eyed Jack’s 1720s captain’s logbook at Crow's Nest Grange, the former manor house of the extinct earls of Stowesbury. The unexpected awaits: pirate tales, the cellar's chilling discoveries, missing treasures,...