Evie Spooner is a well-mannered, good girl who hasn't quite grown up despite being in high school. She longs for the adventure and kiss of a boy that her best friend has already experienced. She and her mother live with her step-father, Joe, and step-grandmother, Grandma Glad, and live a pretty boring life other than her mother and her both hating Grandma Glad. With her step-father just returning from World War II, Evie is hoping things will be less stressful with Grandma Glad. Then, Evie overhears several mysterious phone calls and conversations. Next thing she knows, Joe is swooping up her and her mother for a last minute vacation in Palm Beach Florida, even though Evie is supposed to start school soon.
Things get stranger as they arrive in Palm Beach - nothing is open on Palm Beach (it's not tourist season), they meet a couple at the hotel who quickly take to Joe and Evie's mom, Evie meets a much older man who is romantically interested in but who Joe despises for no apparent reason, and Evie begins to hear bickering from her parents which is completely out of the ordinary. Trying to piece together what is going on while also trying to seduce her new older friend, Evie ends up in the middle of a death mystery. Evie struggles to understand why the death happened, and if someone she loves was involved in the mysterious death.
Good book for historical fiction readers. I personally thought it was a good book, but nothing that I couldn't put down. Some will definitely love it though.
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