Agent: Sally Apokedak, Apokedak Literary. Well-placed red herrings and clues will have readers guessing until the truth comes out. Delightfully quirky townsfolk and details of small-town life create the perfect backdrop for this deftly plotted mystery by Souders ( How to Ruin Your Summer). When his grand-father becomes a person of interest, Coop, an avid mystery reader who has just come into his father’s old Hardy Boys books, becomes determined to find out whoĬommitted the crime, even if that person is Gramps. Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coops. Suspects begin to emerge, from the town funeral director, who bakes muffins that reek of formaldehyde, to a family that has long hated Coop’s. Everyone assumed she had abandoned the family-a terse note from the fashionable woman said she had to get away from small-town life-but it now seems that she was murdered. Construction at the local playground unearths a skeleton that is soon revealed to be that of Coop’s grandmother, who left when Coop’s dad was young. After his dad died five years ago, 13-year-old Coop and his mother moved to Windy Bottom, Ga., to live with the boy’s paternal grandfather. Coop Knows the Scoop Format: Trade Paperback Also available from: Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop Target Walmart Description 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery From award-winning author Taryn Souders comes a charming, southern middle grade mystery perfect for fans of Stranger Things and the Masterminds series.
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