In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter. When she wakes in her aunts’ cold cabin on the shore of Enchantment Lake, Francie remembers: everything about her life has changed. Or is about to. Or just might. Everything depends on the small, engraved silver box that she now possesses—if only she can follow its cryptic clues to the whereabouts of her missing mother and understand, finally, just maybe, the truth about who she really is.
Francie, it turns out, has a lot to learn, and this time the lessons could be deadly. Her search for answers takes her and her best friends Raven and Jay as far afield as an abandoned ranch in Arizona and as close to home as a sketchy plant collector’s conservatory and a musty old museum where shadows lurk around every display case. At the heart of it all is a crime that touches her own adopted North Woods: thieves dig up fragile lady’s slippers, peel bark from birches, strip moss off trees, cut down entire forests of saplings to sell for home décor. But Francie is up against no ordinary plant theft. One ominous clue after another reveal that she possesses something so rare and so valuable that some people are willing to do anything to get it. When Francie’s investigation leads her into the treacherously cold and snowy North Woods, she finds out that she too is being pursued.
REVIEW: Thank you to NetGalley and University of Minnesota Press for the eARC of this book in exchange for a review. When I started reading this I felt like I had stepped into the middle of an incredibly adventurous story and then I found out it's because, I did! This is the final installment of the Enchantment Lake mystery series and it was great! There were some spots that were hard to follow but that could have been because I haven't read the previous books so I didn't fault it for that. This was definitely a modern day Nancy Drew type mystery, which I love because I read all the old novels and even a few of the newer ones. Francie's relentless search for her mom leads her down an adventurous road where she meets some great characters. Loretta "the witch" is an awesome addition to all the strong females in this book. I will definitely be going back to read the previous books in this series to get all the background and previous exploits of Francie, Raven, Theo, & Jay. This book is a definite 4 out of 5 for me just because I was lost at times but overall a must read for fans of Nancy Drew and Theodore Boone.
Publication Date: October 6, 2020
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