Review: A Good YA Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
Brandi Vine suffered deep psychological scars when her beloved sister, Jenny, drowns while swimming in the cold New England waters. For years, a sudden fever would overtake Jenny and she would feel a need for the water. Her dad Sheriff Conrad Vine dubbed his daughter the twilight swimmer.Jenny was lying lifeless on her back at the rocky beach when a fisherman found her and called the police to report a dead body. Jenny's family never knew when the sudden fever would overtake Jenny and she would wade into any body of water she could find, fully clothed. She needed to swim and would swim at any cost. And one twilight swim had cost Jenny her life.Brandi often visits the rocky beach where the lifeless body of her sister washed ashore. It makes Brandi feel close to her dead sister when she visits the last place Jenny was known to be alive. Brandi is invited to a party that friends hoped would get her out of her despair over the death of her sister. That's when Brandi's life is turned upside down and  tragedy strikes, but a mysterious swimmer rises out of the water and runs into the smoke, flames and chaos on the shore.The Swimmer is a very strange creature with webbing between the toes. Was the Swimmer human or a half-human sea creature? The only weakness the Swimmer had ever known was sensitivity to sunlight and moonlight was the only time for a swim or anything else.In a small town like Edgewater, a mystery can remain a mystery. It was almost a point of pride for the people who whispered about such mysteries to keep life interesting.I loved the mystery penned by this author and particularly loved the relationship that Brandi and her father had. I hope you check it out...you might feel the same way.Jeannie Walker - Award Winning Author - "I Saw  the Light" - A True Story of a Near-Death Experience