A once fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. A house full of secrets, uninhabited for almost fifty years. A neglected lake, covered with water lilies. Pettiness and cruelty in small-town America. And Emma Graham, a twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death of another girl forty years earlier. COLD FLAT JUNCTION is the sequel to Martha Grimes' HOTEL PARADISE and in it Emma Graham continues to look for answers surrounding the fate of Mary-Evelyn, who was also twelve when she drowned in Spirit Lake. And the murder of Fern Queen remains to be solved...