Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall
The third book in Johnson's Truly Devious mystery series--about a teen girl trying to solve a long-ago kidnapping at her elite and eccentric boarding school--is an adequate wrap-up. I admit that I didn't bother to reread the first two and so was hazy on a lot of details, which is a problem in a mystery story! And the mystery elements are all revealed in flashbacks, which feels like a cop-out. I was also uninterested in the wishy-washy romance. I really feel like this should have been just one book—breaking it into three pieces just weakens everything. This whole book could have been like four chapters. B/B-.
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