Ukulele of Death, (Severn House, 2023)
Fran Stein and her brother Ken aren’t like other investigators. In fact, they’re not like anyone else: More created than born, they are the “children” of two brilliant scientists who couldn’t conceive and decided to take matters into their own laboratories. Fran and Ken are larger than (most human) life and strong in a “junior superhero” kind of way.
When Evelyn Bannister asks them to find a rare ukulele she thinks will lead to her birth father, Fran is skeptical. She’s more than that when the uke is sold for over a million dollars and Evelyn is found murdered in her apartment. There’s also news about Fran and Ken’s missing parents and it’s not necessarily good…