The Beast of Skull Rock is another great addition to Matt McMann’s scary series for middle grade readers. This installment features twins Simon and Jade. They are spending the summer with their grandfather who runs a curiosities museum full of creepy artifacts in a seaside tourist town. A series of break-ins and animal attacks in the town paired with suspicious scratch marks on a door and scratching noises heard from the museum make the twins wonder who—or what—is behind these events. This leads to an engaging mystery that the twins use their special interests and skills to attack. The book has just the right amount of scary to serve as an introduction to the genre for middle grade readers and an ending that may surprise young readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of the book to read and review.