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Girl #3
The Girl At The End Of The Line
After discovering an old playbill featuring their grandmother on the cover, Nell and Molly O'Hara are determined to find out more, but when the old woman turns up dead in the nursing home, their schoolgirl adventure becomes a fullblown mystery. Reprint.
- GenresMystery
256 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 1999
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
January 14, 2018
There are only 4 of these stand alone 'The Girl.." books, but I wish there were more. Mr Mathes, are you listening?
This is a re-re-read. Glad I own the book because I re-read it periodically...still not grown old.
This is a re-re-read. Glad I own the book because I re-read it periodically...still not grown old.
August 13, 2018
Charles Mathes writes modern day fairy tales, and calls them mysteries, because he arranges a murder here and there through the plot. In this one, a nearly broke antique dealer heroine and her mute sister go on a sprawling modern day quest to discover their past, after their grandmother dies suspiciously at the nursing home. It's a fascinating conceit, particularly in the opening pages where our heroine and sister are trapped in nowheresville USA, and suddenly magical and horrifying things start happening. But welding a Grimm's fairy tale plot line with the tone and settings of the circa 2000 cozy mystery doesn't work here: the whodunnit solution is so ridiculous, that the successful conclusion of the fairy tale feels like a cheat.
November 11, 2018
All of his books are so great!
January 10, 2017
Slow Book. But suspenseful. A few swear words and a couple of sexual content mentioned. I did like that it was mysterious. For me it was predictable as it got towards the end.
August 7, 2013
Why don't people appreciate Mathes more? Every time I read one of his books, I think "oh, this is great!" and then he faces out of my consciousness. His books are strange combos of cozy and adventure, peril and romance, with their own wonderful quirks.
When Molly's grandmother dies, she and her sister Nell are alone in the world. A friend gives her an expensive ring that her grandmother wanted her to have--but where did Gran get it? She had no money. On the track of her grandmother's past, and her own heritage, Molly goes from their small-town home to New York, England, and Vermont, only to find a wealthy, but inhospitable, background that includes a large helping of murder.
When Molly's grandmother dies, she and her sister Nell are alone in the world. A friend gives her an expensive ring that her grandmother wanted her to have--but where did Gran get it? She had no money. On the track of her grandmother's past, and her own heritage, Molly goes from their small-town home to New York, England, and Vermont, only to find a wealthy, but inhospitable, background that includes a large helping of murder.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews