Fadeaway Girl

Name: Fadeaway Girl
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Grimes
ISBN: 9781101484500

Author: Martha Grimes

Series: Emma Graham Series

Narrator: Kim Mai Guest

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/03/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Suspense & Thriller, Traditional British

Synopsis

The beguiling young sleuth Emma Graham returns.

Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the bestselling Belle Ruin. Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than twenty years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth. Then a mysterious drifter named Ralph Diggs appears at the Hotel Paradise, looking for work, ingratiating himself with everyone there. Everyone, that is, except Emma.

The perceptive Emma is bound once again to delight fans of the previous books Hotel Paradise, Cold Flat Junction, and Belle Ruin, and certain to win new readers with her intuition and humor.

About The Author

Martha Grimes is one of the few authors left carrying on the British detective mystery tradition, and doing it well. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant continue to enthrall readers with their clever, darkly humorous crime-solving careers.Kim Mai Guest is an award-winning voice actor for audiobooks and video games. She can also be heard on television shows, such as G.I. Joe: Renegades, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, and Avatar, and movies, like Chill Out Scooby Doo and Dead Space: Aftermath. Her video game work includes Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, and The Lord of the Rings.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry

This book is just the second half of Belle Ruin. The two should be combined. It's actually the fourth of the Emma Graham stories, but Hotel Paradise and Cold Flat Junction stand on their own. The last two only stand together. By some quirk, my spouse picked up Hotel Paradise some 15 or so years ago......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Twelve-year-old Emma Graham is the precocious protagonist/narrator of Fadeaway Girl, precocious being the operative word. Emma's pretty busy for a pre-adolescent, waiting tables at the restaurant where her mother cooks, concocting exotic alcoholic cocktails for her aging aunt, and, in her spare time......more

Goodreads review by Richard

Martha Grimes defines quirky with every character in this outstanding novel: from the one on the cover, to the others we encounter in this really cold case. Although this is a sequel to Belle Ruin, it doesn't matter if you did not read the previous book. 12 year old Emma Graham, a very creative barte......more

Goodreads review by Richard

This is the 4th Martha Grimes novel with Emma Graham in it. It's really the second part of the story begun in Belle Ruin. 12 year old Emma Graham is still up to her sleuthing ways. In some ways she is very precocious, in other ways awfully naive. She is also a terrible liar and plays very mean-spirit......more