Cold Flat Junction - Emma Graham Author:Martha Grimes Obsessed with the "accidental" drowning of an adolescent girl some 40 long years ago, Emma Graham is determined to unravel the mystery of the drowning and the unsolved murders that wind back to it. But Emma's unstoppable quest for answers will take her to places no 12-year-old girl should go -- not even a child as daring, irrepressible, and intu... more »itive as Emma. In the marvelously intriguing Cold Flat Junction, Martha Grimes's quirky, thoroughly captivating young heroine continues the pursuit she began in Hotel Paradise -- tracking down old secrets in the cobwebbed corners of a once-fashionable resort hotel in search of the long-buried truth about two mysterious deaths that will help her make sense of her own strange life.« less
A good story but for the stories to make any sense they need to be read in order - #1 Hotel Paradise, #2 Cold Flat Junction, #3 Belle Ruin - which I have to read next.