The Mastermind Plot

by Angie Frazier

Overview

A new, exciting Suzanna Snow adventure!Suzanna "Zanna" Snow can hardly believe her luck: She's just arrived in Boston, the city she's wanted to visit for as long as she can remember. Think of all the mysteries waiting to be solved here! Her grandmother and cousin, Will, welcome her warmly, but her famous detective uncle, Bruce Snow, seems anything but pleased. He doesn't want Zanna meddling in his current case involving a string of mysterious warehouse fires along the harbor front. But Zanna can't help herself. Is someone setting the fires? Just when she thinks she's on to something, a strange man starts following her. Is he a threat? Zanna needs to solve the case before she has the chance to find out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545393157
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	981 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Angie Frazier is the author of the YA novels EVERLATING and THE ETERNAL SEA, as well as the middle grade novel THE MIDNIGHT TUNNEL. She lives in Southern New Hampshire with her husband and three daughters. Visit her online at www.angiefrazier.com

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4–6—This sequel to The Midnight Tunnel (Scholastic, 2011) stands on its own as an appealing mystery with a plucky young sleuth. Suzanna Snow, 11, sets off for Boston to spend time with the grandmother she hardly knows. The city is quite different from her home in a seaside town in New Brunswick but Zanna finds it exciting. Her famous detective uncle, who resents her presence, is on the case of some missing artwork, and Zanna cannot help but investigate as well. Aided by her cousin Will and a testy new schoolmate named Adele, she is partly responsible for solving the mystery. Her prickly relationship with Adele leads to some comical situations as do her lack of skills in terms of how girls in 1904 are expected to behave. Fans of Nancy Springer's "Enola Holmes" series (Philomel) will be happy to add Zanna Snow to their list of quirky, bright, and determined female detectives.—B. Allison Gray, Goleta Public Library, CA

School Library Journal

Praise for The Midnight Tunnel

"This wonderfully atmospheric whodunit is just right for young readers who have made their way through Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys series but are not quite ready to undertake the grandness of Sherlock Holmes." — The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"What Zanna lacks in grace and composure, she makes up for in pluck, persistence and cleverness, emerging a likely and likable Edwardian Nancy Drew." — Kirkus Reviews

"Mystery lovers will root for Suzanna as she works on solving her first mystery—and they will look forward to more Suzanna Snow mysteries." — Library Media Connection

From the Publisher

After assisting her uncle, Detective Bruce Snow, solve a mystery at the Rosemount Hotel in The Midnight Tunnel (2011), aspiring sleuth Suzanna Snow visits her paternal grandmother in Boston, where she's immediately immersed in a perplexing case of arson and art theft. Arriving at her grandmother's elegant townhouse, Zanna discovers Uncle Bruce still sees her as the "pesky eleven-year-old girl who'd undermined his case at the Rosemount and had made a fool of him." To Uncle Bruce's dismay, Zanna becomes involved in the Horne fires case when Adele Horne, her classmate at Miss Lydia Doucette's Academy for Young Ladies, enlists her help to resolve a string of sinister warehouse fires. Adele's wealthy father owns the burned warehouses, where he stored valuable works of art. As she tackles the complex case, Zanna's pursued by a stranger who reveals himself as Matthew Leighton, her long-lost maternal grandfather, a master thief and Uncle Bruce's chief suspect. Conflicted over her grandfather's disturbing past, Zanna finds herself in a perilous position as she relies on her instincts to unravel the twisted case. Set among Boston's staid brownstones in 1904, the suspenseful plot unfolds from Zanna's first-person perspective, punctuated by her pithy observations. Fans of Suzanna Snow's first mystery will cheer her latest adventure. (Historical mystery. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews