Enchantment Lake: A Northwoods Mystery

Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery by Margi Preus

200 Pages

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Univ of Minnesota Press

Release Date: March 15, 2015

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Children’s Fiction, Teens, Young Adult

Francesca “Francie” Frye is seventeen living in New York. She gets a frantic telephone form her elderly aunts. They believe someone is trying to kill them. She hops on a plan to investigate. There is a lot of suspicious or accidental deaths among the residents. Her first night on the island, the local handyman is found dead from an apparent suicide.

Everyone things she is a detective from New York because she played one on television. There is a developer, Buck Thorn, offering to buy everyone’s cabins. When the developer is poisoned and one of the aunts is arrested, Francie must prove she did not do it. The book is fast paced, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view.