Raspberry Hill is a sanatorium in the middle of the healing countryside, where city dwellers with lung diseases end up. Many of the child patients treated there are from poor families–like Stina. She’s lived on Seaman Street in southern Helsinki in a small room with her five siblings and the mother since the father died in the war, and now she is very sick.

The sanatorium feels like a castle to Stina. It is vast and full of long corridors and echoes. It is also a very lonely place, until one day Stina meets Ruben. The boy starts turning up when they should be sleeping, taking her on nightly expeditions to forbidden parts of the building– like the eastern wing, which has recently burned down.

Little by little Stina starts to realize that everything is not quite right in the sanatorium. Why isn’t her mother writing back to her? Why do the nurses seem so afraid? What really happened in the fire? And what is Ruben trying to warn her about?

Raspberry Hill is crime author Eva Frantz’s first children’s book–a suspenseful horror story for middle grade readers. It starts a series of stand-alone horror novels set in early 20th century that take their young readers on a journey back in time.