Belle Ruin First edition. by Grimes, Martha - 2005

New York: Viking, 2005. First edition, 2005. Hardback. 346pp. Dust jacket. When twelve year old Emma Graham, a waitress at her mother's decaying resort hotel and now the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte's 'Conservative' newspaper, discovers the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, she never imagines that the mysteries it holds will bring her one step closer to solving a forty year old crime - and force a new transgression to light. The sumptuous Belle Rouen, with its ornate public rooms, two golf courses, and grand ballroom, was the place to be each Saturday night until it burned to the ground before Emma's birth. With a collection of singular characters helping her along, Emma is determined to discover the buried family secrets that lie just beyond the tree line in Cold Flat Junction where all mysteries begin and end. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Just a little light edge wear and some minor indentations to back.