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Hotel Paradise, Emma Graham Novels

A pre-teen sleuth inspects a decades-old mysterious drowning at a lakeside resort in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.

A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before . . .

Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small-town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death.

Martha Grimes

Bestselling author Martha Grimes is the author of more than thirty books, including twenty-two Richard Jury mysteries. She is also the author of Double Double, a dual memoir of alcoholism written with her son. The winner of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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