Think carefully. Thats the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jeans guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. Its advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, sorting out family papers for the reclusive Mr. Thiel, a trustee of Aunt Constances school and the widower of her childhood friend Irene Callender. At Mr. Thiels isolated country estate, Jean is surrounded by bewildering questions from the past. Why is there such hatred between Mr. Thiel and his late wifes brother? Was her death an accident? And what happened to their child, who disappeared after Irene Thiels death? Do the answers lie in the Callender papers? And will searching for the answers put Jeans own life in jeopardy?

 

 

This book features in the following series: Aladdin Mysteries, Fawcett Juniper, Lions Series .

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Simon & Schuster .

Cynthia Voigt, winner of the Newbery Medal, was born in Boston in 1942. For a number of years she taught English and Classics. She is married with one daughter and one son.