The Dollhouse Murders

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Paperback, 149 pages

English language

Published Feb. 14, 2009 by Scholastic.

ISBN:
978-0-545-12337-2
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OCLC Number:
317070368

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What kinds of secrets do dolls keep? Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But every night when Amy goes into the attic to check on the dollhouse, it is filled with an eerie light and the dolls have moved again! Are the dolls trying to tell her something? Are their movements connected to the grisly murders of her own great-grandparents? In a spine-chilling climax, Amy and her sister unravel the secrets of the petrifying dollhouse murders. --back cover

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Loved this book as a kid; happy to find it again as an adult. Overall, I'm pleased at how well it holds up despite being written in the '80s. The story of how Amy Treloar finds a dollhouse with dolls that re-enact the murder of her great-grandparents is still very creepy. The dollhouse ghosts present her with a mystery to solve. In the process, Amy gets closer to her special needs sister, Louann, and helps her Aunt Clare heal from a tragedy that has dominated over her adult life. Oh, and did I mention that this passes the Bechdel Test?