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Cassie's beloved father is under police investigation for the kidnapping and murder of a missing neighborhood girl until Cassie decides to find the killer herself
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From Kirkus Reviews:
Summerfield's debut owes much of its charm to its saucy, wise- child narrator, 11-year-old Cassie Wade, whose school chum Margie Thoroughgood, ``the girl who had everything''--blond hair, big blue eyes, a developing bust, and a splendid, shiny silver bike--stepped into a green car and was never seen again, imparting terror to all the parents and a certain notoriety to the village of Upper Grisham. Mrs. Thoroughgood befriends Cassie--begins, in fact, to obsess about her--and when Cassie's dad is abroad and her remarried mum is not eager to deal with her, Mrs. T. invites her to move into Margie's old room--and dress in her dresses and ride her bike. Mr. Thoroughgood is away for a spell, perhaps permanently. Time passes: the police make little progress in the case; Mrs. Thoroughgood becomes more and more Margie/Cassie obsessed; and the villagers feud among themselves--first assigning Margie's abduction to Cassie's dad, then to his artistic Welsh boyfriend, then to the hapless village idiot--before Margie's body is found past the dell, and an old alibi breaks down. Splendid evocation of country schools, English landscape, tinkers, and village mores: Anglophiles will queue up for this one. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Publishers Weekly:
An English village with its tightly knit, at times almost claustrophobic community provides the setting for this splendid mystery/coming-of-age debut. Eleven-year-old Cassie Wade's life changes drastically after the disappearance of her popular, spoiled classmate Margie Thoroughgood, last seen getting into a stranger's car. As police leads fail and the fearful residents of Upper Grisham hold their children close , Cassie, who lives with her overprotective grandmother, faces her own set of problems. Cassie's mother, who had left her husband and daughter years before, resumes an interest in the girl, much to Cassie's dismay; Margie's mother, whom Cassie dutifully befriends, becomes unhealthily dependent on the child; and Cassie's father, whose job takes him away from Upper Grisham much of the time, is viewed as an outsider and murder suspect by the villagers. When, nearly a year later, Margie's body is found, Cassie's close but sometimes uncomprehending observations of those around her lead her to a secret that puts her in grave peril and uncovers a murderer. Summerfield's finely tuned tale of innocence lost draws readers fully into Cassie's world.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 075050160X
- ISBN 13 9780750501606
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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