Synopses & Reviews
Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.
Review
"Martha Grimes' strength as a writer lies in her ability to create a vivid community of characters whose eccentric personalities and day-to-day mishaps are as intriguing as the mystery itself. One of her stock figures, especially in the Richard Jury series, is a precocious, but forlorn, child who waits around hoping for someone to take an interest in him or her. In this second mystery novel featuring young detective Emma Graham, Grimes once again has moved the neglected child to the center of the drama. Emma's curiosity, as well as her emotional attachment to the case, leads her on a spirited chase to catch the killer before the sheriff even knows that she is investigating it. The mystery itself is often hard to follow, but you quickly become so absorbed in the characters that you forget to notice." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Review
"Interweaving humor and pathos, Martha Grimes delves far below the surface to the center of what makes us irrevocably human and creates characters that we come to know and to love. And as with all of her magical novels, Cold Flat Junction is more than just something to read it's something to experience." bookreporter.com
Review
"A superior writer." The New York Times Book Review
Review
"Grimes brings every corner of Cold Flat Junction to vivid life." Baltimore Sun
Synopsis
Martha Grimes's
Hotel Paradise was hailed by
Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.
About the Author
Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of eighteen Richard Jury mysteries and also the acclaimed fiction
Foul Matter,
Cold Flat Junction,
Hotel Paradise,
The End of the Pier, and
The Train Now Departing.