Maureen Johnson, author of the excellent Truly Devious series (which I've praised before), is at it again with a stand-alone novel called Death at Morning House. A deserted island, a family curse, rumours of hidden treasure, a terrible storm, and a missing historian who had been working on a book on the unconventional Ralstons… Our heroine, Marlowe Wexler, a puzzle solver who really needed to leave town after a date gone disastrously wrong, had no idea what she was getting into when she accepted a position as a tour guide for the summer, joining a group of other teens as a replacement for one of their friends who drowned a few weeks earlier. This author has found a formula that works — bright young woman simultaneously investigates past and present mysteries — and executes it with flair and humour. Dare I ask for more Marlowe?