The Mystery at Marlatt Manor
Review: Anne McGee takes an all too familiar modern day situation and wraps a pre-teen mystery around it in The Mystery at Marlatt Manor.
Thirteen-year-old Mallory Gilmartin is still reeling from her parents' divorce when she moves to rural Cedar Creek. No one seems to understand how heavily all this change weighs upon her. Being thirteen is hard enough, but now a new environment just makes things so much worse. Retreating into her imagination, she sees her life as a complex problem in need of a modern day reality solution.
But then a nearby house offers a mystery to solve, and Mallory is just the girl to do it.
Clues from the contents of secret boxes help save the day and the mysterious manor.
This book will excite young teen readers in hopes for a better life. And as my 12-year-old granddaughter Lily tells me, you never know where your dreams will take you, and how they might just come true.
Special thanks to Lynne Gordon for contributing her review of The Mystery at Marlatt Manor.
Acknowledgment: the author provided a copy of The Mystery at Marlatt Manor for this review.
Review Copyright © 2011 — Lynne Gordon — All Rights Reserved
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The Mystery at Marlatt Manor by Anne Loader McGee
Publisher: Vendera Publishing
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-936307-05-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-936307-05-0
Publication Date: March 2011
List Price: $7.99
Synopsis (from the publisher): When thirteen-year-old Mallory Gilmartin sees a light in the top window of the deserted mansion on Dark Hollow Hill, she is convinced it is connected to a young girl who mysteriously disappeared from there some fifty years earlier. Plagued by sudden nightmares and a voice that calls to her for help, Mallory must uncover the truth behind why someone seems so desperate to buy the worthless, old house. In a race against time, she is soon caught up in a devious plot involving the Marlatt family and their strange past.