of all the ND mysteries i've read (32) this is by far the most far fetched!
The story starts off with Nancy flying back from visiting Aunt Eloise in NY. She sits by a man from Centrovia, and i knew in that moment that it would be KEY to her next mystery.
The premise behind this story is Nancy helps brother and sister Henri and Helene Fontaine from Centrovis who received a threatening note that they needed to leave River Heights. Natually, Nancy disregards this threatening message and asked Mr. Drew and Hannah if the Fontaines can stay with them. You see, the Fontaines had to leave France because they were accused of being jewel thieves and fled to River Heights to continue teaching dance in their studio. Did i mention Nancy is a superb ballerina? Because she is.
This story is really involved and includes a lot of characters with a lot of aliases. You would think that this would be really interesting and add to the excitement, but it does not. I found it very hard to follow in addition to seeing how the various characters and situations fit together in the conclusion.
I will say this is the first time in one of her mysteries where i truly doubted and was unsure about whether someone who Nancy had deemed as "good" really was. What I mean by this is there was definitely grey area about whether people were being truthful or not. Like, I was unsure of whether the Fontaines were being truthful or not---so props to you, writer of this particular story.
I don't want to give away the ending, but let's just say, if you smell kerosene and see someone with a large container of it near a house---get out, because chances are this person is going to burn the place up!
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