In a surprise, the Cold Case Kids author, Doug Archer, arrived at ‘Orchard Landing’ market in Paisley with his most recent book, Curse of the Island Creeper.
Living on the shore of Lake Huron, local author Archer has created the exciting Cold Case Kids series where three young sleuths, Brogan, Brycen and Heather, along with their zombie friend Angus, are always getting into mysterious adventures.
Tales of buried treasure, time travel, zombies and shipwrecks take the Cold Case Kids into the realm of mystery and, sometimes, the supernatural surrounding the Chantry Island Lighthouse that lies offshore of Southampton on Lake Huron.
The lighthouse built in the 1800s has become known as the protector beacon on the Island drawing ships into the harbour of refuge, where many ships lay beneath the waters off Chantry Island.
In his first book, ‘Ghoul’s Gold – the Mystery of the Chantry Island Treasure’, starts the series at Chantry Island where there is rumour of buried treasure.
It all began when Archer’s then 11-year-old son asked if there had ever been any pirates on the Great Lakes, Archer thought about the concept and that Chantry Island would, in fact, be a great pirate hideout … and the idea of ‘Ghoul’s Gold’ was born.
In his first book, Archer’s three young sleuths, Brogan, Brycen and Heather, begin their adventure through strange happenings surrounding Chantry Island’s Imperial Lighthouse off the shore of Southampton and the rumoured buried treasure. A hidden diary, haunted lighthouse and zombies lead them ever deeper into adventure.
In the second of the series, ‘Legend of the Phantom Reaper’: the Mystery of the Southampton Shipwrecks’, the kids and their zombie friend are at it again as they are taken a century back in time through an underwater portal. There they find a world of shipwrecks, supernatural stories, and mysterious messages. Can they solve the mystery before another ship is sent to a watery grave?
With his recently released third book in the series, ‘Dead Man’s Tale: The Mystery of the Lost Riches of Chantry Island’, the Cold Case Kids are lead into an adventure of sinister masks, haunted house and puzzling happenings.
“The Cold Case Kids – Brogan, Brycen, and Heather and their zombie friend Angus, are looking forward to another summer of hanging out at the beach. Until they discover a wooden chest tossed up onto the shores of mysterious Chantry Island … and make the mistake of opening it. What comes out plunges the kids into a mystery filled with sinister masks, walking skeletons, and a tale from beyond the grave. A tale filled with cryptic clues that point the way to hidden riches. But something evil watches over the riches and it will stop at nothing to keep them hidden. Solving this mystery could spell the end for the Cold Case Kids … BUT THE DEAD MAN’S TALE MUST BE TOLD!
The idea for ‘Curse of the Island Creeper’ came to him on a nighttime boat cruise around Chantry Island … when he swears he saw a dark, shadowy figure wandering the island shoreline. As if searching for something. 
The Cold Case Kids, Brogan, Brycen, Heather and Margot, along with their zombie friend Angus, are thrilled to be spending three fun-filled days at Camp Lighthouse on Chantry Island … until a mysterious fog rolls in … and the island is cut off. A ghost ship rises on Lake Huron. Decaying mariners shamble forth from their watery grave and a cloaked figure emerges out of the fog in search of something long ago lost. The kids must unearth buried clues and solve the mystery of the cloaked figure’s search … before they are trapped on Chantry Island … forever! BEWARE THE CURSE OF THE ISLAND CREEPER!
A freelance writer, Archer has written several hundred articles and stories on everything from lighthouses to tarantula-sized cottage spiders. ‘Curse of the Island Creeper’ is the fourth book in the Cold Case Kids Mystery Series, but it is not the last. More ghosts and ghouls and phantoms lurk around Southampton and Chantry Island … and their tales must be told.
Archer lives in Port Elgin, Ontario, a five-minute drive from Southampton, the setting of Chantry Island and the Cold Case Kids Mysteries.
The series is available on Amazon.ca and at local book stores.
