Summer at The Dunes: A Deirdre Carlisle Mystery

Freya Katrina Ashby
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595436637
Reviewed by Mary Johnson (age 14) for Reader Views (1/08)


“Summer at The Dunes” is about an 18-year-old girl who goes to visit her family in a small town called Nova Scotia where a so-called boring summer turned into one of excitement and mystery. 

Freya Katrina Ashby, who wrote “Summer at The Dunes,” is a very good author. She has a point in “Summer at The Dunes” and she keeps it. She also gives you such a detailed description of all the characters that you almost have a picture of what they look like in your mind. I found the author Freya Katrina Ashby to be a very detail-oriented writer and that is what I like in a book; I like to be able to get a mental picture of the character.  If I don't get that mental picture I keep having to go backwards in the book to remember who the person is that they are talking about. I will read more of Freya Katrina Ashby's books because of this attention to detail.

“Summer at The Dunes” is definitely for someone interested in mysteries or for a general reader. It is kind of like a cross between an old who-done-it and a Nancy Drew mystery. It reminds me of the game of clue, in the sense that there is an old British Army Officer, a professor, a famous actress, and a spy.

“Summer at The Dunes” tells the story of how Deirdre Carlisle spent her summer, not the way she wanted to in Paris with her parents, but with her uncle who owns a hotel.  While at the hotel she got to catch thieves, solve mysteries and find stolen goods.

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