I liked this one. It was a little deeper than most middle grade, but the characters were great and the story had enough twists and turns to keep me guessing.

ARC Copy...That was some good mystery and who done it in a small town with...it gets kind of risky also when the suspects are all eccentric like the rest of the townspeople. I like also there is multiple plots, and clues going on yet Coop himself never gives up on following a lead most of the time for the sake of his beloved ones.

This is a murder mystery. The mystery is who killed Coops grandmother, whom everyone assumed just up and ran away from home one day. There are a lot of suspects, but the police seem to be focused on Coop's grandfather.

Coop and his mother only came to the small Georgian town, five years before, so they don't know his grandfather all that well, but he doesn't believe that he could ever murder anyone. So while all the evidence points his way, Coop goes out of his way to find out who really did it.

Intersting, although too much character development for me. I know, I know, we always complain that people are one dimensional, but I really didn't care about some of the secondary characters enough to know that they couldn't spell, or know large words.

Other than that, I have to say I didn't figure out the mystery until just about the time that Coop did.

Also good was how the bully was shown to not be that bad, and actually helped solve the mystery.

Little slow in the beginning, but it finally picked up speed about half way through.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.