The Billionaire's Curse / Richard Newsome / 344 pages

This is the first book written by Australian Richard Newsome and won for him Text Publishing's inaugural Young Adult Writing Prize.  It started out as a bedtime story for his children and he finally set it to paper over the course of ten years.  In researching the story, he traveled across England, studying many places that appear in the book, and he traveled to India for the second book in the trilogy.  When thirteen year old Gerald finds himself the heir to twenty billion pounds from an aunt he never met, he inherits with it a mystery surrounding his aunt's death and various artifacts in the British Museum.  39 Clues fans should enjoy this set in England mystery.