Helen Grant's The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
This isn't a mystery per se (at least, the library has it classified as fiction), but there's a mystery at its core so I'm labeling it as such. OK, administrative notes done, time for comments! Anyway. The story is about 11-year-old Pia growing up in small-town Germany in the late 1990s; she's locally famous because her grandmother exploded (sort of), but that gets overshadowed when a girl goes missing. With the help of her only friend, whose bizarre nickname (StinkStefan) is never explained, she tries to investigate, becoming convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Meanwhile, the growing fears in town cause tension in her parents' marriage. Things move along at a quick pace till the exciting (but somewhat ridiculous) ending. B+.
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