Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
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.

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction. A Novel. New American Library, ISBN: 9780451205230 (February, 2002), 432 p., $12.00.

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
A once fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. A house full of secrets, uninhabited for almost fifty years. A neglected lake, covered with water lilies. Pettiness and cruelty in small-town America. And Emma Graham, a twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death of another girl forty years earlier. COLD FLAT JUNCTION is the sequel to Martha Grimes' HOTEL PARADISE and in it Emma Graham continues to look for answers surrounding the fate of Mary-Evelyn, who was also twelve when she drowned in Spirit Lake. And the murder of Fern Queen remains to be solved...

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction. Headline, ISBN: 9780747268437 (November, 2001), 438 p., £6.99.

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
A once fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. A house full of secrets, uninhabited for almost fifty years. A neglected lake, covered with water lilies. Pettiness and cruelty in small-town America. And Emma Graham, a twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death of another girl forty years earlier. COLD FLAT JUNCTION is the sequel to Martha Grimes' HOTEL PARADISE and in it Emma Graham continues to look for answers surrounding the fate of Mary-Evelyn, who was also twelve when she drowned in Spirit Lake. And the murder of Fern Queen remains to be solved...

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction. Headline, ISBN: 9780747272021 (February, 2001), 311 p., £17.99.

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
Emma Graham, the heroine of Hotel Paradise, continues her compelling inquiry into the suspicious drowning forty years ago of another twelve-year-old in Spirit Lake, near the Hotel Paradise, the once-fashionable resort belonging to the Graham family. Emma Graham's quirky, mysterious story is spun out of old secrets and varnished truths. Emma is determined to find answers to the questions that surround not only the "accidental" drowning, but also to two unsolved murders that wind back to it.

Underlying Emma's intuitive grasp of people's motives, her irrepressible humor, and the vivid imagination that sustains her is something more sinister, a sense of her own danger. Emma's pursuit of the truth about these three "tragedies" is much more than an inquiry into murder; it's the story of how she delivers herself from the confusion of childhood.

Martha Grimes: Cold Flat Junction. Viking, ISBN: 9780670894918 (February, 2001), 390 p., $24.95.