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Malcolm Rose
Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up,
Houghton Mifflin, 2005, 978-0-7534-5981-2
Luke Harding has solved several very difficult cases since he left school but the current one is certainly the most bizarre. Someone is killing women who are called Emily Wonder. Two of the women were poisoned and one was stabbed with an unknown weapon. They were of different ages and different backgrounds and Luke cannot find anything which connects them.
With increasing concern Luke, and his mobile computer assistant Malc, investigate the three crime scenes. The killer left very few clues at the scenes and in the case of the first Emily Wonder, there isn’t even a body anymore because she was cremated.
Luke decides that he better find out how many more Emily Wonders there are and where they live. In the course of tracking the women down Luke discovers that a homeless child called Emily Wonder has disappeared. She was last seen walking with a man near an old warehouse in London.
Fearing for her life Luke asks one of his London contacts, a young man, to help him find out as much as possible about Emily. Luke knows that Emily lived in a dangerous world and that it might be impossible to find her in the city which is, in many areas, in ruins.
Could it be that one of the Emilys is responsible for this series of murders? Is there something in the victims’ pasts which connect them, even distantly?
In this third title in the Traces series, Luke Harding once again proves that he is very good at what he does, even if he is only sixteen years old. Not only does he solve the crime but he also finds a way to help people whom he cares about. He negotiates with The Authority in a very clever way to get what he wants. Will he similarly be able to find a way out of the forced pairing that The Authority will insist on in a few years time, or will he have to give up being with the girl he loves?
Readers who enjoy science fiction titles will enjoy this book. It gives readers an intriguing and sometimes chilling view of what life in the future might be like.
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