The Niello Mysteries

The two books in the Niello Necklace Series trace the adventures of Bun Hare, and his best friend Katie, who embark on a dangerous quest to solve the mystery of Bun’s birth parents. The quest takes them across America and Australia, while powerful forces pursue them, determined a reunion will never take place and the secret of the Niello will never be discovered.

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The Niello Mysteries

Available at: Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Booktopia; Book Depository; and CreateSpace

The Niello Mysteries

Available at: Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Booktopia; Book Depository; and CreateSpace

The Niello Mysteries

Available at: Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Booktopia; Book Depository; and CreateSpace

The Niello Mysteries

Available at: Amazon; Barnes & Noble; Booktopia; Book Depository; and CreateSpace

The idea for the two books in the Niello Mysteries series - The Niello Necklace Mystery and The Secret of the Niello - came from two words, the name of the main character. Bun Hare.I was driving from Sydney to Brisbane with my husband when we decided to stop for tea and cakes. We were on the highway looking for somewhere other than a service station when a sign on the side of the road just outside Moorland caught my eye, 'Devonshire Teas'. The tearooms were a few kilometres from the highway and what a find they were. The building was an old wooden building with a wide veranda and surrounded by trees. The owner was a young girl whose father was helping her get the business started. The scones were hot and moist, the cream fresh and the jam home made.As we sat on the veranda we began talking to the owner's father. He pointed out a stone building in the back yard, near a huge weeping fig tree and explained it used to be an old bakery and the baker's name was 'Bun Hare'. That night I wrote the first words of The Niello Necklace Mystery.

We've never been back to Moorland but I often wonder what the man and his daughter would think if they know one small stopover changed my life and set my on the path of writing children's books. The second influence on the book was the Niello necklace, a tiny gold heart bought from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Met is one of my favourite places in all the world and somehow I had to get it into my book, so the necklace became the centre of my mystery.

BOOK 2: THE SECRET OF THE NIELLO

You can find The Secret of the Niello at: http://www.amazon.com/Robyn-Collins/e/B0092BPTY0/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

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The adventure continues in Robyn Collins’s action-packed new children’s story, The Secret of the Niello. The final book in the Niello Necklace series finds Bun Hare once again in deadly danger after he discovers a series of clues and a diamond niello necklace in a secret room at his grandparents’ home. The clues convince him his parents are still alive.

Bun and best friend Katie embark on a worldwide adventure as they head to Australia where they think Bun’s parents may be hiding under different names.

Accompanied by an FBI agent who may or may not be on Bun’s side, the group will have to overcome false leads, shady figures from the past, and a mysterious gunman who will stop at nothing to prevent Bun from finding out the truth about his parents.

BOOK 1: THE NIELLO NECKLACE MYSTERY

You can find The Niello Necklace Mystery at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Robyn+Collins+&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ARobyn+Collins+ And in ebook edition at:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IOWGU1Y

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When fourteen-year-old Bun Hare’s mother is fatally injured in a tragic accident, she reveals a startling secret: she is not his real mother, a secret she has kept from him for the past thirteen years.

Equipped with a photographic memory and insatiable curiosity, Bun quickly locates clues in his New South Wales home, including an American passport, American money, and a mysterious niello necklace inscribed with the code “MMA585.”All signs seem to be pointing to America, so Bun prepares to fly across the ocean to New York City, with the help of his orphaned best friend, Katie.

The overseas journey proves to be far more dangerous than they ever anticipated—the duo soon learns that a group of powerful individuals is prepared to do anything to stop them. Nobody is trustworthy and nothing is what it seems as Bun and Katie race to figure out the origin of the niello necklace and how the code could possibly be connected to Bun’s true parentage.

Bun and Katie’s high-stakes adventure takes them from being almost run down in the streets of New York and chased by a gun-toting villain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to a kidnapping near Chicago and a secret cave in California.

But will the pair reach their final destination in time for a joyful family reunion, or will Bun’s family mystery remain carefully hidden for the rest of time? Finding out the truth will require plenty of intelligence, determination, and bravery if the best friends hope to return home safe and sound.

Read the first chapter:

The Niello Mysteries

Chapter 1- A Frightful Discovery