Notorious

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Korman, Gordon.  Notorious.  2020.  Balzer & Bray, an Imprint of Harper Collins.


13 year old Keenan is recovering from Tuberculosis (TB) at his father's house on an island in the middle of Lake Michigan.  Keenan has traveled all over the world with his mother, who is an International Teacher.  Every year, he starts over again in a new country with new friends and new places to explore.  But he's never seen anything quite like Centerlight.  The International Border for Canada and the United States runs directly through the middle of the town.  This small and quirky little town was the home for smuggling during Prohibition, and many of the big name mobsters spent time in Centerlight, overseeing their smuggling operations.

While Keenan is laid up in the backyard of his father's house, he meets Zarabeth - ZeeBee for short.  ZeeBee is his age, but she lives on the Canadian side of the island.  She is fascinated with gangsters, the history of gangsters on the island, and the loss of her beloved dog Barney - who was the terror of the island.  She is convinced that Barney was murdered, but nobody will listen to her.  Everyone says that he died of old age.

But, as Keenan becomes more curious about the history of the island, he discovers that ZeeBee might not have been that far off the mark.  When he stumbles across evidence that Barney was murdered he and ZeeBee launch their own investigation to see who had reason to murder the terror of the island. When ZeeBee's house is broken into and destroyed, they realize that they are on the way to solving a much bigger crime.

But will anyone listen to them?


Author Web Site:  https://gordonkorman.com/