How would you react if you had evidence that a dead person was trying to tell you something? Thirteen-year-old Mallory Gilmartin has had to move with her mom Lorna and older brother Ron from their home in Philadelphia, PA, to the small community of Cedar Creek, VA, after her father leaves the family and her mother finds a job there. The author has “modern and gothic world collide” in this very readable series-“all the right stuff for a New Age Nancy Drew”. Of course, a ghost named a Violet will only draw more interest. Having just moved to Cedar Creek, her mom’s home town, from Philadelphia, Mallory is not thrilled with this ‘small town’ stuff until she begins to meet some new friends while investigating the Marlatt Mansion. The more Mallory learns the less sense the ‘deal’ makes. As Mallory is checking out the Marlatt Mansion, she uncovers a real estate deal connected to the mansion and its heir that appears to being ‘pushed through’ quickly which even affects her grandmother, Aggie. Haunted mansion on Dark Hollow Hill! Anne Loader McGee’s The Mystery At Marlatt Manor (#1) begins a series whose protagonist is 13 year old Mallory Gilmartin, a teenage sleuth in Cedar Creek, who believes she hears a voice calling her name in her dreams or maybe the term nightmares is a better fit which draw her to an abandoned ‘haunted’ mansion where 50 years ago, the young daughter of the Marlatt family disappeared.
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