The last time the peacocks, William Shakespeare and Virginia, went missing Cassie found them sitting on a coiled hose behind the fire station and Dad called her 'Cassie Andersen, peacock detective'. So this time she knows what to do - she'll look for clues, write down all the important details in her Notebook for Noticing and track them down. But the clues lead her in an unexpected direction and Cassie finds herself investigating a puzzling mystery about her family, searching for a missing friend and facing her worst fear. And, in the middle of it all, she is working out how to be a writer.
