Change of Heart

Teenage sleuth Robyn Hunter returns in her seventh mystery, written at a fourth-grade reading level and first published in Canada. When a up-and-coming hockey player is murdered, Robyn dives into finding out who’s responsible—one of her best friends, Billy, is the prime suspect, and her other best friend, Morgan, was the murdered player’s girlfriend. McClintock keeps tensions high, and Robyn is a winning heroine—fiercely loyal to her friends and the kind of girl who isn’t afraid to wade into the middle of a fistfight. Realism isn’t really the point, but like Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars before her, Robyn’s investigations are addictive. Ages 11–18. (Mar.)