The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson

The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson

Heather Samuelson has always loved puzzles, but her next one may be more challenging than the rest. Heather and her sisters have inherited a letter and a package full of cards from their recently deceased mother. The letter itself contains a rather creepy fairy tale, and the cards were all sent after their father died. What, exactly, was their mother trying to tell them?

Heather also discovers a scrapbook with a collection of obituaries and details of a murder trial in her mother's things, further deepening the puzzle. Does it have something to do with one of their father's former clients? After all, as a witness, he helped put away some pretty hardened criminals.

As Heather dives deeper into the mystery, the danger becomes all too real. Events in Heather's neighborhood-a burglarized home, a mysterious neighbor, and her sister's near-fatal run-in with a car-are seemingly unrelated to solving the riddle of her parents' past. But it soon becomes all too clear that nothing is as it seems.