Mystery/Thriller - 4 1/2 stars
Minnesota, 1980s. Twelve year-old Cassie McDowell and her older sister live on a farm on the outskirts of town with her sculptor father and teacher mother. The McDowell family appears to be poor but loving and wholesome--school, chores, obedience is their mantra. But Cassie's parents have parties--weird parties where children see too much. And now young boys are being "taken." Summer vacation is around the corner, and Cassie is determined to spend her school-free days solving the mystery, even if some of the people she is closest to are on her radar. ----- I can't express how happy I was to finish this book--and not because it's bad. The overwhelming menace that pervades the story from page one kept me flipping pages as fast as I could so I could escape. Inspired by, but not based on, true events from Ms. Lourey's childhood, she knows just how to keep pushing the icky-ness without losing the realness of the moment. A story that made me thankful I grew up fear free and innocent.
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