βHotel Paradiseβ was hailed by Booklist as βsuperbβ¦beyond genreβ¦one of the yearβs best.β Now Martha Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girlβs unexplained death with another girlβs attempt at making sense of her own life.
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham is fascinated by something that happened forty years ago: the suspicious drowning of another twelve-year-old in Spirit Lake, near the Hotel Paradise, the once-fashionable resort belonging to the Graham family. And that first tragedy has spawned two moreβ¦
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