A raconteur’s delight with a story that’ll keep ‘em guessing, this is one title you won’t want to miss. And when it’s Kate Milford doing the writing, there’s nothing for it but to enjoy the ride. When you find one that’s really extraordinary you want to hold onto it. Though the Edgar Awards for best mystery fiction do dedicate an award for young people’s literature, the number of honestly good mystery novels for the 9-12 set you encounter in a given year is minimal. Kids today have it better, but not by much. Aside from The Westing Game or supernatural ghostly mysteries sold as Apple paperbacks through the Scholastic Book Fair, my choices were few and far between. I just didn’t have a lot to choose from there. It wasn’t that I was rejecting the mysteries of the children’s book world. This would be around the time when I was ten or eleven.
When I was a kid I had a real and abiding love of Agatha Christie. Clarion Books (an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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