Jessie Crew (series Bk I ) Log Pond Murders. It's summer 1956 in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, a place and time where kids were free to ride their bikes into adventure and danger. Twelve-year-old Jessie finds that a young teen girl was found murdered at a lumber mill's log pond less than a mile from where she and her mothers just moved. She sets her sights on finding the killer, not realizing that she might become the killer's next victim. Prejudice is rampant, and everyone has secrets. Jessie is forced to face her fears of snakes and ghosts while guarding her family's secrets. She must enlist the help of the Mud Suckers, three rough twelve-year-old boys who consider Jessie a dickless vermin. Jessie's quest to find the killer leads her to ignore orders and good sense. She puts both herself and Deboyce, the leader of the Mud Suckers, in mortal danger.
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