Tuesday, November 21, 2023

One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley


Started: 11/17/2023

Finished: 11/21/2023

Year: 2023

Pages: 343

Genre: mystery

Grade: B-

Reason for reading: library book

Type: paperback

Blurb (from Amazon): "I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years...

"It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life.

"So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep.

"Then Lucy goes missing.

"Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen. Her family write it off as one of her many mix ups, there's a lot Edie gets confused about these days. But Edie knows she's the key to finding Lucy. 

"Time is running out and Edie must piece together the clues before Lucy is forgotten forever."


Opinion: An interesting way at looking at a decades old mystery with someone with dementia. 

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