Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry

Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry

Perfect for tween readers who enjoy mysteries and puzzles and books like Chasing Vermeer, this page-turning debut novel is filled with adventure, intrigue, and heart.

After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny who takes the place of their parents, and a school year looming ahead that promises to be miserable.

And then, one day, Brid, CJ, and Patrick discover an astonishing secret about their apartment: The original owner, the deceased multimillionaire Mr. Post, long ago turned the apartment itself into a giant puzzle containing a mysterious book and hidden panels--a puzzle that, with some luck, courage, and brainpower, will lead to discovering the Post family fortune.

Unraveling the mystery causes them to race through today's New York City--and to uncover some long-hidden secrets of the past.

Maureen Sherry earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and spent twelve years on Wall Street. She went on to get an MA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She and her family moved into a historic apartment several years ago, and she began to worry about the family who had lived there before them. She added to the apartment's history by inserting a mystery that would be solved by her children with the help of an architect. This book's real-life inspiration is her apartment and her four children.