Ms. Jocelyn bases her fictional character, twelve-year-old Aggie Morton, on Agatha Christie.
When Aggie encounters the dead of body of their neighbor, Irma Eversham, she immediately begins to gather clues. A host of suspects require her to sift through their motives and backgrounds. A new friend, Hector Perot (sound familiar??), provides support, logic, and most importantly, friendship.
I loved the quirky characters and suspenseful plot. I am not "highly recommending" it for middle grade readers (see "warnings"), although I think this is a great series for mystery lovers!
Warnings: Aggie possesses a vivid imagination. Sometimes she imagines quite graphic and violent "ideas" or "imaginings". Sensitive readers may be offended. One adult woman in the story has child before marriage. This woman discretely explains this to Aggie. She does not say anything inappropriate in her explanation, but parents may not want to discuss this yet with their third grader! Other considerations: Murder, the villian tries to harm Aggie and another character, a few characters in peril/frightening
Four books in the series (two are forth-coming).
-Borrowed from the library.
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