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Everything thirteen-year-old Eden Jones knows, she learned from watching television. Bethanne Swanson learned her lessons from fifty years in the school of hard knocks. Both feel like losers. Yet a tragedy in small-town West Virginia brings them together and forces them to tap resources they never knew they had. Eden’s best friend and Bethanne’s sister are found dead in a yellow Mercedes at the bottom of Lake Charles. Why would the poverty-stricken teen, Ray-Jean, have been riding with Mary Margaret, the town’s wealthiest woman? Did someone tamper with the car, causing it to plunge into the lake? Eden and Bethanne pool their talents and follow clues that no one seems to want discovered. What secrets are Mary Margaret’s family hiding? Did Ray-Jean’s snooping go too far? What role do the town’s most prominent citizens play? As these two unlikely partners unearth the sordid facts, their bond grows beyond a bumbling collaboration between amateur sleuths. Despite their differences in age and experience, they end up not just friends but true soulmates.
What a blessing to be grabbed by the first paragraph of a book, and then not to be disappointed later. I love the conviction Eden brings to the knowledge that her best friend Ray-Jean died wearing a seat belt. "She would NEVER wear a seat belt." So we have Eden and her new friend, belittled and maligned sister of the driver of that car, interested in solving a crime that no-one else deems a crime. The odds are against this pair, the trailer trash 13 year old and the lush middle aged divorcee, but they rise above and, ultimately, are on the road to personal fulfillment. That the wealthy brother in law/widower and the chief of police don't want them nosing around does not stop them. There are no cliches here. Just good, fun writing.