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Something Wicked
A Horatio Wilkes mystery

by Alan M Gratz



      High school senior Horatio Wilkes is attending the Scottish Highland Festival in Pigeon Fork, Tennessee, with his friends, Joe MacKensie, Wallace Banks and Beth Weigel.  The Festival is the pride of Duncan MacRae, its founder, and owner of the mountain on which it is held.  This mountain is the only land unspoiled by developers and therefore greatly desired by the local real estate men. Duncan is Joe's grandfather and Joe believes (with his greedy girl friend, Beth) that he is entitled to the land.

Duncan is found murdered in his tent.  The name of his son, Malcolm, is written with his splattered blood on the sides of the tent. Police believe Duncan wrote the name of his murderer in his dying moments.  Malcolm protests his innocence, and Horatio has his doubts about Malcolm's guilt .When Beth and Joe begin acting suspiciously, he seeks answers.

Something Wicked is the story of friendship, trust and betrayal. The author presents a disturbing picture of lands plundered and destroyed by developers of strip malls and tourists resorts.  This is a disturbing picture of how a man's greed and inflated opinion of his importance can lead to disaster.

The atmosphere of the Highland Festival is a festive one.

The Book

Dial Books
October 16, 2008
Hardcover
978083736665
Young Adult Mystery
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2008
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