Charlie's mother is about to be taken for witchcraft! Charlie, too. With the aid of Balthazar, his cat, he escapes – only to find himself in another time and a different kind of danger!

In medieval Northumbria there are sinister goings-on at Goslar Abbey. Someone is poisoning the monks. In peril of his own life, can Charlie decipher the runic riddle and solve the mystery?

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Sarah Matthias writes . . .

I wrote The Riddle of the Poisoned Monk for my four children to read to them at bedtime.  The only problem was that I could not write as fast as I could read.  Every night, my children were begging me for more.  I had to scribble away madly in the day whilst they were at school because I didn’t want to disappoint them.  Sometimes I would be sitting outside the playground gates finishing the instalment for later that night.  It was a good way to write because I received regular feedback as I went along about which characters my children liked.  If they seemed particularly excited about something in the book, I would make sure I included more about it in the next chapter.  If they seemed bored by anything, I would cut it out.  When I finally decided to find a publisher, the book was much too long.  I had to cut it down quite a bit before it appeared on the shelves of the book shops.