Six years ago, when Declan Steeple was 10 and his sister was just a baby, his mother, Lindy, disappeared, searching for something better than the dusty family estate with its generations of clutter and memory. Now the Steeples live in a modern split-level down the hill from the Big House, but the mansion is still there, filled with a past that hides secrets. When a local man is found dead in the house, memories of Lindy and her unhappiness living there suddenly become a pressing weight on Dec, compounded by the fact that he and his sister were the ones to discover the body. The teen feels lost and suspicious; his father seems to be hiding something and Dec realizes how much has never been discussed.

Related: Canada, Mystery and Thriller, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9780374374785
• Author: Wynne-Jones, Tim
• Published: 2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Themes: Family problem, Friend, Imagination, memory, Mother
• Descriptors: Canada, Mystery and Thriller, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 224