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This is a riveting, fast moving story about a teenager with amnesia who names herself Andi, a girl who befriends her, & their quest to uncover Andi's past.
Author Notes
Martha Grimes was born on May 2, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Maryland.
The idea for Martha Grimes' first British detective novel, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1981), was inspired by the name of a British pub she noticed while leafing through a travel book. A longtime Anglophile, she has continued to use a British pub as both the title and part of the setting in each subsequent novel in the series which features Scotland Yard Detective Richard Jury, his assistant, Melrose Plant, and Plant's interfering Aunt Agatha. The Anodyne Necklace (1983) won her the Nero Wolfe Award. Her other works include The Stargazey, The Case Has Been Altered, The End of the Pier, Biting the Moon, and Dust. Her title, Vertigo 42, made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014.
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Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
YA-Two brave and resourceful teenagers careen from one wild adventure to another in this gripping tale of kidnapping, murder, and more. The older girl wakes alone in a bed-and-breakfast near the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico. She has complete amnesia but she's sure that the person who brought her there is not her "Daddy," as he described himself to the proprietress. She searches the room, finds a wad of money and a backpack labeled A. O., and heads for the mountains, where she finds an empty cabin in the foothills. She calls herself Andi and decides she must be about 15. Sneaking into a pharmacy in a nearby town, she is discovered by Mary Dark Hope, a 14-year-old orphan who takes Andi home with her. Andi persuades Mary to help her find out who she is, and the two set off on a series of adventures involving animal rescue and a white-water rafting expedition led by "Daddy," who turns out to be a rapist, pedophile, and murderer. In the end, he is exposed and killed by Andi in self-defense. She discovers that she is also an orphan and sets off to find out who her parents were. YAs will find this somewhat unbelievable but riveting story entertaining and the young heroines delightful and admirable.-Molly Connally, Kings Park Library, Fairfax County, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Engaging adolescent Mary Dark Hope, who appeared in Rainbow's End, returns in this uneven thriller/animal-rights polemic. After Mary befriends Andi, a teenage amnesiac who releases trapped animals in New Mexico's Sandia Mountains, the two girls head after a mysterious man who Andi thinks may have kidnapped her and knows her identity. Conveniently, the orphaned Mary has a bank account, a car, her dead sister's driver's license and gullible caregivers. The girls easily encounter garrulous informants along the way, finding a friend and protector in Reuel, a salt-of-the-earth dropout who knows everyone in Salmon, Idaho, where they've tracked their quarry. Once Andi identifies Harry Wine, a river expedition outfitter, as her abductor, the book shifts into a series of predictable episodes that show unthinking people gruesomely mistreating animals and that reveal the arrogant Wine's vile nature. Mary and Andi rescue an abused dog, go white-water rafting, spy on a "canned hunt" for endangered animals. In a violent scene near the book's end, Andi confronts Wine, then disappears. Although Grimes writes movingly of the plight of maltreated animals and gracefully evokes the beauty of the American West, many scenes are too long and aimless. Most of the characters are stereotypes, their individual motivations hard to discern. Andi's disappearance is especially puzzlingÄlike the Lone Ranger, she stirs up the populace and vanishes, leaving the cleanup to others. This is not a Richard Jury book, and fans will miss him. Rights, Peter Lampack Agency. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
Teenaged Andi Olivier lives in a cabin in the mountains near Santa Fe, rescuing animals caught in traps. She doesnt remember who she isher name is made up, based on the A.O. she finds stitched on her backpackbut she does remember waking up in a motel where, she is told, Daddy has deposited her and then gone on to do some business. Andi is convinced that Daddy is not her real father, and after hooking up with 14-year-old Mary, whose family have all perished, she sets out to find the man she thinks abducted her and to recover her past. Along the way, the two girls run into evidence of animal abusedogs starved for dog fights, tame beasts from zoos set up for fake huntsthat will make the stomach of any decent reader churn. The story is not exactly probableamazingly, months later people recall vivid details of the man just passing through town who fits the description of Daddybut the prose is suspenseful, the ending satisfying, and Grimess passionate concern for animal welfare deeply moving. Buy wherever Grimes is popular.Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.