 | Death at Morning House Author: Johnson, Maureen | |
| Price: $14.99 | ||
Summary:
Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist. With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that's how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s. Low risk of fire. High chance of getting bored. But Morning House has a horrific secret that's been buried for decades, and now the person who brought her here is missing.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: UG Reading Level: 5.00 Points: 13.0 Quiz: 551669 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (06/01/24)
School Library Journal (00/08/24)
Booklist (+) (07/01/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/07/24)
The Hornbook (+) (00/11/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 07/01/2024 *Starred Review* Thanks to an exploding candle, New York teen Marlowe’s first date with longtime crush Akilah goes up in flames—literally. Instead of a romantic night relaxing at a borrowed lakeside cottage, they get a house fire. Obviously, Marlowe can never show her face again, so she flees upstate to a summer job at Morning House, a mansion built in the Thousand Islands archipelago with a tragic past. The Ralston family, famous in the 1920s and ’30s for their eccentric lifestyle, fell into ruin after a series of accidental deaths. Rumors of lost treasure and a curse have continued to fuel their legend. Marlowe joins a crew of local teens doing tours, managed loosely by historian Dr. Henson, but she is disturbed to learn she’s replacing a guide who recently drowned. At least that explains the weird tension among the others, right? When Dr. Henson goes missing just as a storm isolates them, Marlowe realizes that someone at Morning House holds dangerous secrets. Johnson gives the Truly Devious series a break in this stand-alone sapphic mystery following two equally gripping time lines: the Ralston family deaths and Marlowe’s present-day sleuthing. Marlowe’s excellent memory and love of puzzles serve her well, while her self-deprecating, deadpan humor fills the narrative with quirky charm. Suspenseful, smartly executed, and hilarious. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
