Cold Flat Junction / Martha Grimes.
"Cold Flat Junction. It's the kind of place you might look out at from a train window and think, 'Thank God I don't live there, what a boring town, what an empty place.' It is an empty an empty place, and maybe even a boring one, sometimes; but I think you'd be wrong to pass it by; you should alight from the train and stay awhile' These are the words spoken by twelve-year-old Emma Graham, the heroine of Hotel Paradise who continues her compelling inquiry into the suspicious drowning forty years ago of another twleve-year-old in Spirit Lake, near the Hotel Paradise, the once-fashionable resort belonging to the Graham family. Emma Graham's quirky, mysterious story is spun out of old secrets and varnished truths. "When there's a great mystery you wish to protect- that is, a mystery you want to keep the wrong people away from - you go about solving it in a roundabout way. You sometimes ask questions of the wrong people...and although you eventually come to an answer, it will take much longer to get it." Emma is determined to find answers to the questions that surround not only the 'accidental' drowning, but also to the two unsolved murders that wind back to it. Underlying Emma's intuitive grasp of people's motives, her irrepressible humor, and the vivd imagination that sustains her is something more sinister, a sense of her own danger. Emma's pursuit of the truth about these three 'tragedies' is much more than an inquiry into murder; it's the story of how she delivers herself from the confusion of childhood.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670894918 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0670894915 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0451205235 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 390 p. ; 25 cm. : ill.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2001.
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General Note: | Sequel to: Hotel Paradise. |
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Subject: | Hotels > Fiction. Graham, Emma (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Drowning > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Girls > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Mystery fiction. |
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