She had only a little time to do what she had come to do. Maureen Johnson 445 pages first pub 2022 ( editions) fiction contemporary mystery young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced Description Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Fifteen minutes and several hundred dollars later, she walked out the door with an oversize bag that banged against her knees as she walked. She grabbed some fuzzy-lined ones that sort of looked like shoes and took the whole pile to the register, where a friendly clerk tried to talk to her about skiing and the weather, and Stevie stared blankly until the transaction was over. Once skin touched tile and part of her soul died, she knew what slippers were for. Slippers always seemed like kind of a nonsense item, until she came to Ellingham and felt the bathroom floor on the first proper day of wintry weather. After a confused moment of going from rack to rack, looking at the prices and fills and temperature ratings, she grabbed the first one on the end. There was no shortage of black coats, all of them costing way more than Stevie had ever spent on anything. Charles had given her a short list with sizes, leading with a coat. Anyway, now Stevie had to quickly buy a guy she barely knew some stuff.
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