Praise for Hotel Paradise:
'One of the finest voices of our time. Martha Grimes is poetry' Patricia Cornwell 'Brilliantly rendered and superbly textured.., unique narrative force and lyrical beauty If this book is a "mystery" it's the mystery of life itself. As a reader, I was enthralled.As a writer, I was struck mute with jealousy' Andrew Vachss
'The originality here - the convention of a radically dlsempowered detective set against a densely imagined but indifferent world - will remind some readers of Barbara Vine,others of the Henry lames of "In the Cage" and The Awkward Age' Kirkus Reviews
A ONCE FASHIONABLE, NOW FADING RESORT HOTEL. A spinster aunt living in the attic. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A neglected lake, covered with water lilies. Pettiness and cruelty, in small-town America.And Emma Graham, a twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death of another girl-Mary-Evelyn Devereau - forty years earlier.
COLD FLAT JUNCTION is the sequel to Martha Grimes' HOTEL PARADISE and in it Emma Graham continues her search for answers surrounding the fate of Mary-Evelyn,who was also t~velve when she drowned, supposedly by accident, in Spirit Lake. And the murder of Fern Queen remains to be solved. COLD FLAT JUNCTION is a delicate yet agonising view of the decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult, and a novel with extraordlnary range and depth.
