Doctor Jackie and Miss Haide. The curse of the sea - vol. 2
Gisella Laterza, Giada Pavesi
Doctor Jackie and Miss Haide. The swan’s mask – vol. 1
Crime
Fantasy
Mystery
The mysteries of Scottish folklore creatures, the dark alleys of Edinburgh, and the mist of the moors, explored by three young detectives.
One morning, amidst the autumn mist, young Stevenson wanders the surroundings of Edinburgh, a city of forests, witches, and spirits, with his writer’s notebook. He is only fourteen, but he already nurtures the passion for adventure that will later fill his novels. Suddenly, he hears a hiss, and a stiletto gets embedded in the tree trunk next to him. This is how he meets two enterprising and fascinating twins: Jackie, with her confident demeanor and clear beauty, and Haide, quieter and more elusive. The two sisters address Stevenson: Someone is going to die, and we must prevent it. Are you one of us? Thus begins an adventure filled with mysteries, murders, and culprits.
- Jackie and Haide are inspired by Jekyll and Hyde. They are twins—identical and opposite.
- A young Robert Louis Stevenson in the role of a detective hunting monsters and stories.
Publisher:
Battello a Vapore
Target:
8-10
Year:
2021
Author
Giada Pavesi
Giada Pavesi is a writer from Cremona, where she lives with her snobbish cat and a few too many plants—but whenever she gets the chance, she grabs her yellow suitcase and sets off on a trip. To justify reading all day, she began studying foreign languages and literature at the University of Milan, and later in Leicester, England. She has worked as a waitress, entertainer, translator, librarian... and probably a few other things too.
Author
Gisella Laterza
Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo—or more precisely, in a café downtown where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin at a high school and leads creative writing workshops for kids and teens (ages 6 to 99!). She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies, and a children’s adaptation of The Divine Comedy (Einaudi Ragazzi). Among her most popular series is Tre amiche per un diario (Il Battello a Vapore). Under the pseudonym Ella Archer, she wrote Abissi e incanto, a fantasy romance currently being translated into French, Dutch, and Spanish. The novel is a finalist for both the ILfest Award (Munich, 2025) and the Romance Book Party Awards (Naples, 2025).
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