Review: Cold Flat Junction
from Library Journal, February 15, 2001
The intrepid 12-year-old sleuth Emma Graham is back in a sequel to
Grimes's Hotel Paradise. When 38-year-old Fern Queen is shot just
days after her father, Ben, is released from prison, Sheriff Sam
DeGheyn suspects him. Emma, certain that the current murder is
somehow related to the drowning death of Fern's cousin
Mary-Evelyn Devereau 40 years earlier, sets out to prove Ben
Queen's innocence. While the mystery lacks both credibility and
suspense, Emma's domestic life is entertaining. Left to run her
family's hotel while her mother vacations in Florida, the plucky,
philosophical Emma creates exotic drinks for her 91-year-old
great-aunt, Aurora Paradise; reluctantly agrees to play the deus ex
machina in her brother Will's offbeat production of Medea; and hides
mushrooms in the meatloaf of the mean-spirited hotel patron, Miss
Bertha. Recommended for public libraries.
-- Jane la Plante, Minot State Univ., ND, Library Journal
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