Martha Grimes

Discovering the crumbling remains of a once-fabulous hotel in the woods near her small home town, twelve-year-old cub reporter Emma Graham stumbles upon clues pertaining to a forty-year-old unsolved crime involving deeply buried family secrets. By the author of The Winds of Change. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Belle Ruin

Amanda Wells

Are. You. KIDDING ME?
What kind of a way is that to end a book?

Ok. Positive points first: I love Emma Graham. She's obsessed with food. She's clever, but still childish and naive in certain ways. I think she'll grow up to be a marvelous Miss Marple.

Negative points: There is no resolution. And not in the normal way where the author leaves certain conclusions up to the reader so that they might focus on the thematic elements of the book... this was the way where I was sure something had gone wrong at the printing press.

Belle Ruin

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