Witches of Hogsback

Zelda is a self-proclaimed do-gooder and cannot stay quiet if she sees something wrong. Unfortunately, this doesn’t win her any popularity contests - and now not even her ex-boyfriend, Dylan, wants to put up with her anymore. Desperate to escape from everything for a while, Zelda signs up for the school’s hiking trip to Hogsback. Her illusion of having a nice, relaxing time shatters when she stumbles upon a mystery nobody else wants to solve: the death of local teen Stephan Dale. Quickly, she is neck-deep in trouble: from having her room vandalised to nearly being killed. Someone clearly doesn’t want her solving Stephan’s death. Her prime suspects are the group of teenagers known as the ‘witches of Hogsback’, but are they really witches? There is more to this case than meets the eye.

Sally Partridge is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Cape Town, South Africa. She is a four-time recipient of the M.E.R Prize for Youth Fiction and former recipient of the South African Literary Award for Youth Literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature, the IBBY Honour List, and the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize. A passionate campaigner for youth literacy, Sally has contributed to numerous school setwork and text books and is a proud Book Dash contributor, an initiative that aims for every child to own 100 books by the age of five. For her contribution to youth literature, she was named one of Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans in 2011.