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I've never been a real fan of the Baby-Sitters Mysteries, or even the various mysteries that popped up during the regular series. This book, however, doesn't deal with 'ghosts' or long forgotten secrets of Stoneybrook that don't really matter. This one deals with a secret that's been kept from Mary Anne - after her mother died, her father sent her to stay with her maternal grandparents.

Maybe this book would have had more impact if I had read it when it first came out, rather than gathering all the knowledge about Mary Anne and her grandmother from later books. But because I read it so much later, it felt a little like it was just filling in some minor gaps - it didn't have the emotional impact it might have had.

Still, I'm glad I did read it finally.