Down the Rabbit Hole
The Echo Falls Mysteries
Peter Abrahams
HarperCollins (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-06-073703-4 (0060737034)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-073703-0 (9780060737030)
Publication Date: April 2006
List Price: $6.99
Review: Down the Rabbit Hole
is a very good hard case crime, action filled, and comedy packed book.
This book is just the ingredient for an evening full of suspense and
fun. This superb crime novel is written by Peter Abrahams and is the
first book in a wonderful series. The 13 year old female main
character, Ingrid, has countless passion and talent for theater and
soccer and has a great personality.
As Ingrid is in the doctor’s office waiting for her mom to pick
her up to go to soccer practice, she realizes that her mom is very
late. She decides to run to soccer practice. She gets lost and ends up
in the flats of Echo Falls. Here she meets a very strange lady whom her
friends call “Cracked up Katie” but her real name is
Katherine Kovac. Ingrid stays in her house until the taxi arrives. When
the taxi arrives she accidently leaves her cleats at Katherine’s
place. The next day Katherine ends up dead, strangled. Ingrid one day
fakes that she is sick and she tries to find evidence related to who
killed Katherine. The next day she needs her cleats back because her
family has noticed the absence of them. In the dead of the night she
sneaks out and breaks into Katherine’s house and looks for them.
She finds them upstairs in a pile of evidence. She slithers under the
police tape and quietly grabs the shoes from the evidence pile. When
she turns to leave she hears a noise and hides under the bed. The
window shatters and a man’s feet come into view. She
doesn’t know who’s they are but she is keeping it in the
back of her mind. Ingrid auditions for the role of Alice in Alice in
Wonderland. In the end she puts the evidence together with some more
that she gets from the theater but will it be enough to solve the crime!
I really liked how the author put numerous suspenseful moments together
to create just the right effect for the book. I also liked the
different characters and the personalities that they withhold. One
thing that I didn’t like is the abrupt movement of different
scenes. That kind of threw me off, but only a little. The reason to
read the book is because of the way that suspense, action, and comedy
clash to make the perfect taste of entertainment to satisfy your needs.
I would highly recommend this book to mostly pre-teens to adults. Most
of the content is too mature and young children will not understand it.
Overall the book was great with very little flaws and infinite
memorable moments in this hard case crime.
Review written by Kevin, Age 11, Grade 6. Date of review: January 2009.
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